Audience

• business analysts, workflow administrators and developers
• The course focuses on designing workflows using the core components that ship with the product

Course Prerequisites

• A basic understanding of XML data structure and components
• A basic understanding of web services and of service-oriented architecture
• A basic understanding of Active Directory domains and organizational units
• An understanding of building Adobe LiveCycle Forms, as covered in our Adobe LiveCycle ES: Designing Forms course.

Course Objectives

• Define business processes and workflows and describe how Adobe LiveCycle applications provide process automation and enterprise integration.
• Develop a basic process and control the flow of data within the workflow.
• Design and integrate processes using Workflow Designer and the core components.
• Manage and troubleshoot workflows.
• Install and configure Adobe LiveCycle Workflow using the turnkey install.

Course Outline

Introducing the Course

• Introducing Mastery Learning
• Understanding the Course Format
• Reviewing the Course Prerequisites
• Reviewing the Course Outline

Introducing Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite)

• Understanding LiveCycle ES
• LiveCycle ES architecture
  
• Getting help and other resources
  

Getting Started with Adobe LiveCycle Workbench ES

• Understanding the relationship between Eclipse and Workbench ES
• Exploring the Workbench ES interface

Creating a Process

• Process Concepts
  
• Creating Processes in Workbench ES
• Creating process diagrams

Using Data in a Process

• Adding Resources to the LiveCycle Repository
• Preparing forms for use in LiveCycle applications
  
• Defining variables for a process version

Assigning Tasks to Users in a Process

• Defining operations in a process diagram
• Using process data on different forms
  

Interacting with a Process via the Workspace

• Managing processes
  
• Using the LiveCycle ES Workspace
  

Implementing Business Rules to Control Process Flow

• Selecting routes based on business rules
  

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Process Versions

• Monitoring applications
  
• Troubleshooting an application
  

Interacting with Databases

• Interacting with databases using the JDBC service
  
• Using the Execture SQL Statement operation
• Selecting database data
  
• Selecting multiple rows of database data

Using Email in a Process

• Configuring Email Notifications
  
• Using the Email service in a process
  
• Initiating processes via email

Using the Forms Service Within a Process

• The Forms Service
  
• Rendering Forms as part of a process
  
• Using custom render and submit services
• The form augmenter service

Creating and Rendering Form Guides Within a Process

• Forms Guides
• Using a form guide in Workspace ES
• Customizing Form Guides

Generating PDFs from Other Document Types

• Understanding the PDF Generator service
• Reading and writing files using the File Utilities service
• Creating a short lived process using the PDF Generator service

Using the Rights Management Service to Secure Documents

• Examining Document Protection
• The Rights Management service
• Applying Rights Management to a PDF in Acrobat
• Securing Microsoft Office documents with policies
• Protecting a document as part of a process

Using the Reader Extensions Service

• Understanding the Reader Extensions Service
• Using a Reader Extensions ES digital certificate
• Using the Reader Extensions Service from the web interface
• Reader Extending a document as part of a process
• Using a watched folder endpoint

Branching in a Process

• Creating Gateways