Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
The
Hiring a Developer
task form provides the user with all the components to determine
the name of the developer to be hired. Like almost all the task forms, this one contains in-
formation that is only relevant to the specific domain of this task. When the user needs to
do the real work, they need specific tools to make the decisions involved in said job.
However, when it comes to listing tasks, we want to be able to assess multiple cases sim-
ultaneously. The formula to get both the things working in the same environment is to
provide abstract task lists and specific domain task forms. The other cool thing about task
forms is that multiple processes that require this functionality can reuse them.
Keeping an external reference inside the process can be enough for most cases. There is
no need to keep all the content of a document as a process variable, especially if there are
external services to access, query, or even modify the said documents from outside the
process scope. You will find it a common practice to keep documents in a content reposit-
ory and have a process variable that points to the actual document. If for some reason the
business process requires some bits of information from inside the document to make
