A workflow-instance defines the id of the workflow-definition to execute and additional parameters for the workflow-instance. The xml-record consists of the id of the workflow-definition and a list of parameter-elements that have a mandatory attribute ‘name’. Child of the parameter-element can be one of <datevalue>(type xsd:date), <stringvalue>(type xsd:string) or <decimalvalue>(type xsd:decimal). This structure gives maximum flexibility, because all kinds of information can be written. required kept required kept objid of the workflow-template. Holds information about the configuration for this workflow instance.