In addition to the technical status for process instances, users such as process designers can use the Business status to filter, find, and monitor process instances. The Business status is displayed in ARIS Process Board, My tasks, as well as in views and filters of process administration. For mini workflows and micro workflows, the business statuses are implemented by default, such as Waiting for approval or Rejected in the Submit change request workflow.
Implementing the business status for other processes
Although the Business status attribute is displayed for all processes, no values are displayed unless you perform the following steps.
Add the Business Status variable to the variable catalog of your database in ARIS Architect. For detailed information, refer to Add 'Business Status' variable to variables catalog in the online help of ARIS Architect.
Create intermediate activities in the process model to set the respective business statuses and assign a value to the Business Status variable.
The specified business status values are only displayed if the Business Status variable is available in your database otherwise it is empty.