If you are a BPM (Business process management) developer/administrator and use TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM as your BPM product, then this tip would help you to show the 'Start Process Instance' button in AMX BPM workspace.



There are normally two ways of starting a particular business process instance in AMX BPM:

1. Using a business service (Page Flows).
2. Directly starting a process which does not have a business service (Page flow process) using the button as shown in this image.

We are talking about the second option here when you do not have a page flow attached with your business process and would like to start it from wrokspace. There is a 'start process instance' button in workspace but is not visible by default in TIBCO AMX BPM workspace. You need to make following configuration changes to show it up on screen:

1. Log in to your TIBCO AMX BPM workspace with user who has administrator rights. By default, TIBCO installation configures the user tibco-admin with password secret as the workspace administrator.
2. Click 'Admin' and then 'Configuration' on top right hand side of your workspace window.
   
3. A new pop up window opens up. Select 'UserAccess.xml' from left hand side pane. Scroll down to the 'System Administrator' tag entries in the opened file. Refer the screen shot here.
4. The <access name="StartInstance" /> tag signals whether to show the button to user or not. It is commented by default in this file. To enable the feature for Admin user, just uncommented this tag i.e. remove <!-- --> from start and end of this tag.
5. Click 'Apply' and then 'Ok' button to save your changes. You will be brought back to workspace.
6. Log out and Log in again with the Admin user. You should now see the 'Start Process Instance' button on top left corner of workspace window.

NOTE: If you want to enable this button for all users or selected user profiles, you have the options of un-commenting this tag for those profiles in the same file. Just scroll above and you will be able to locate the respective tags.

Any confusions/problems...write in forum or comments and i will try to answer as soon as possible. Enjoy!!