====== Options for Starting Instances ======

TIM has various ways to a start a process instance. This can be done directly via TIM, via webform, via timer, via webservice directly from TIM or via actionhandler.

  * [[en:software:tim:actionhandler:startprocessinstanceactionhandler|Actionhandler: StartProcessInstanceActionHandler]]
  * [[en:software:tim:actionhandler:createprocessinstancefromfolderbyxml| Actionhandler: Via an XML-file within the folder]]
  * [[en:software:tim:webform|Webform]]
  * [[en:software:tim:timer:createprocessinstancebycsvhandler|Via Timer with CSV-file in file system]]
  * [[en:software:tim:timer:createprocessinstancefrominputfolder|Via Timer with any file in file system]]
  * [[en:software:tim:webservices:startpibypdname| Via webservice]]
  * [[en:software:tim:startpibypdname| Example of starting via process definitions names]]