Siebel Runtime Event and Workflow Process

In Siebel world, Runtime Event (RTE) and Workflow Process seems to be very good friends. Both understand each other pretty well. Whenever there is a need to implement any functionality on based of some trigger, these two friends comes hand in hand. I usually make use of both of them most of the time to make a good solution.

Few things to keep in mind when we use them for any requirement:

1. If a workflow process needs to be invoked synchronously like, via button click on the UI or some action done by user, RTE can be used. The best part is if the Workflow is also based on the active business object, system will automatically set the "Object Id" process property with the Row Id of the primary business component on UI. Moreover, the complete context of the UI handed over to the workflow.
   
   Note: RTE will not get invoked if the business object, on which workflow is based on, is different from the UI context BO. 
   
   
2. In the scenario where point#1 can't be used due to any reason i.e. workflow is not based on any BO, then the only way to pass the Row Id or any other field values of the current record to the workflow is via setting the profile attributes. In the RTE action set, you can set the profile attibutes as the first step and in the next step call the desired workflow. Then inside the workflow, you can read the profile attribute values.
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3. One of the tracking feature that OOB provides is, if you have "Monitoring Level" set to "4 - Debug" for a workflow process, and if that workflow process being called from RTE then system automatically add a new property named "Triggering Event" with the Row_Id of RTE. So it becomes easy to track the triggering event.