Creating the Workflow Manager workspace in an enterprise geodatabase in Oracle

Available with Workflow Manager license.

Complexity:

Beginner

Data Requirement:

ArcGIS Tutorial Data for Desktop

The postinstallation utility creates all the system tables required for you to use ArcGIS Workflow Manager.

Creating and configuring the Workflow Manager workspace

The postinstallation utility creates all the system tables required for you to use ArcGIS Workflow Manager for Desktop.

1. From the Start menu, navigate to ArcGIS Workflow Manager and click Workflow Manager Post Installation.

   The Workflow Manager Post Installation wizard appears.

2. Specify the connection information for the designated workspace, then test the connection information.

   Note:

   For connecting to an Oracle database, the Easy Connect syntax must be used instead of the TNS names. For more information on Easy Connect strings, see the Oracle section in Database connections in ArcGIS for Desktop.

   
   Enter connection information for the enterprise geodatabase that will be the container for the Workflow Manager Repository.

3. Click Next.
4. Choose the WMX configuration keyword, created while modifying DBTUNE, for your Workflow Manager geodatabase.
   Choose the configuration keyword.
5. Click Next.
6. Define the spatial reference for the Area of Interest feature class.

   A separate two-page wizard appears allowing you to select the coordinate system and extents.

   

   Define the spatial reference for the Area of Interest feature class.
7. Click Next.
8. Choose your starting configuration for the Workflow Manager repository.
   • No configuration will put the Workflow Manager system tables schema into your designated geodatabase and not prepopulate any of the configuration elements.
   • Minimum configuration imports just the basic elements that the Workflow Manager system requires.

     Note:

     If you plan to use all the functionality available in the Workflow Manager client application, it is recommended that you import at least the minimum configuration.

   • Quick configuration includes the minimum elements plus predefined job types as an example.
   • Custom configuration allows you to import a preexisting Workflow Manager Configuration File.
   
   Step Four: Choose the starting configuration and user store for your repository.

   Note:

   If you plan to import a Workflow Manager configuration exported from a 3.x database, choose the No Configuration Import option. Tools are provided in the Workflow Manager Administrator to import the legacy configuration files.

9. Choose your starting user store for the Workflow Manager repository.
   • Traditional—Users and group are defined in the Workflow Manager Administrator and the user name of the users is the Windows login.
   • Portal—The users belong to an ArcGIS Portal or Organization, and the user name of the users is as defined in the Portal.

     Note:

     If you choose Portal, a dialog box to log in to the Portal appears.

10. Click Next.
11. Choose whether you would like to create a Workflow Manager Database connection to this new repository when the postinstallation is complete.
    • Specify a connection alias.
    • Specify a repository name.

      Note:

      This is used as a unique identifier when defining cluster for Repository Replication.

      Note:

      The following characters must not be used in the connection alias and repository name \ / : * ? < > | ".

    • Specify to set the database as default.

    

    Step Five: Decide if you want Workflow Manager to add a Workflow Manager Database connection for you

12. Click Finish.

    The system tables needed to use Workflow Manager are created in the database. Also, the current user running the postinstallation is automatically added to the list of users and is added to the Administrator group, which grants the user administrator access.

    The final page in the wizard appears, indicating if the postinstallation was successful or not.

    Note:

    Administrator access means that the current user can connect to the selected database through the Workflow Manager Administrator to make edits to components of your system.

13. Choose whether you would like to view the log.

    

    The final page of the wizard indicates the success of the postinstallation and offers you a chance to see a log of the process

14. Click Close.

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