CONTROLLING THE CREATION OF PROCESS INSTANCES IN WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and to a system for controlling the creation of process instances within an execution environment. Upon receiving a request to create a process instance and corresponding input data to be processed by said process instance, the method and corresponding system in a first step constructs a process instance identifier for said process instance to be created based on the provided input. In a second step the method and corresponding system is executing said create request only, if no process instance exists or existed with said process instance identifier. In the case, that that particular process instance already exists or existed with said process instance identifier, the present invention optionally proposes to have some user-defined action to be carried out.