Overview of Workflow Console

The SAS Model Manager Workflow Console is an interface to SAS Workflow that you can use to track the progress of a modeling project or version. A SAS Model Manager administrator or a SAS administrator uses SAS Workflow Studio to define process definitions and to make them available to SAS Model Manager for use. Process definitions contain the set of activities, participants, policies, statuses, and data objects that comprise a business task. After the process definitions are made available, the SAS Model Manager administrator uses Workflow Console to create workflow instances to be used with SAS Model Manager. A workflow instance is a working version of a workflow process definition. Each workflow instance consists of activities. Activities can contain user-defined properties and comments so that you can share information with other users, or make notes. The status that you select when completing an activity determines the next activity in the workflow process.
From the SAS Model Manager client application, you can view workflow instances, create a new workflow instance for a project or version, and view your workflow inbox to work with activities, depending on the user permissions. The option that is selected and the user permissions determine the category view and content that are displayed when Workflow Console is launched. SAS Model Manager administrators can view the Process Definitions, Instances, and Activities category views of Workflow Console. SAS Model Manager advanced users can view only the Activities category view. For more information about user permissions, see SAS Model Manager: Administrator's Guide.