stage

A stage is the first level of organizing tasks that are required to complete your business process. By providing stages, you organize work into logical phases that users of your application follow to reach an outcome. Stages visualize milestones or significant events in your business process, and can also indicate a transition of work from one person to another. For example, if your business process is to review job applications, you can create Submission, Review, and Approval stages, where each stage includes a set of different actions and is performed by a different person. Stages that are necessary to resolve a case through a default path are primary stages.

To increase flexibility of your application and resolve cases that alter from a default path, create alternate stages, for example, to continue case processing after a job candidate is rejected, as the following figure shows:

Figure: A business process with primary and alternate paths