pp108 : Viewing Activities of a Process Instance

Viewing Activities of a Process Instance

This topic describes the procedure to view the activities of a process instance.

Before you begin this task:
You must have the Process Administrator role in Process Platform Business Process Engine application package to view activities of a process instance so that you may perform required operations on those process instances.


You can view details about the different activities of a process instance.
Do one of the following to view activities of a process instance:

Starting Point

Procedure

Process Instance Manager (PIM)


1.In My Applications App Palette, click (Process Instance Manager). The Process Instance Manager appears displaying a list of business processes that have process instances.
2.Click Find ( ) on the toolbar. The Filter Process Instances window appears. If you do not specify the filter criteria for process instances, the default filter options are considered based on which the process instances appear.
3.Type the selection criteria.
4.Click OK. All process instances that match the specified criteria appear.
5.Click the instances with the status for which you want to view the process instance details. The Instances by Process Definition window appears.
6.Select the process instance and click (Show Activities). The Activities pane appears.
7.Click (Show Input Message) on the toolbar to view the input message to the activity. Alternatively, right-click the activity name and select Show Input Message.
8.Click (Show Output Message) on the toolbar to view the output message from the activity. Alternatively, right-click the activity name and select Show Output Message.
9.Click (Show Error Text) to see the error message if the process aborted because of the activity. Alternatively, right-click the activity name and select Show Error Text.
10.Click (Show Sub-Process Details) to drill down to the sub-process details if the activity is a sub-process. Alternatively, right-click the activity name and select Show Sub-Process Details.

11. If the activity is of type Decision table, Click (Show Decision Table Details) to see the read-only view of the decision table. The rule columns colored in green color denotes that those rules are successfully evaluated. The rule columns in red color denotes that those rules did not match the condition criteria defined for the given input message.

Sub-Processes


1.In My Applications App Palette, click (Process Instance Manager). The Process Instance Manager appears displaying a list of business processes that have process instances.
2.Click Find ( ) on the toolbar. The Filter Process Instances window appears. If you do not specify the filter criteria for process instances, the default filter options are considered based on which the process instances appear.
3.Type the selection criteria.
4.Click OK. All process instances that match the specified criteria are displayed.

5. Click ( Show Sub-Processes) to display the sub-processes. The Sub-Processes pane appears.
6.Select the sub-process instance and click ( Show Activities). The Activities pane appears.
7.Repeat steps 7 to 11 stated under Process Instance Manager in the row above.


You have successfully viewed the activities of a process instance.

 

Related tasks

Viewing Process Instances
Viewing a Process Instance in Graphical View
Viewing Sub-processes of a Process Instance
Performing Operations in Process Instance Manager
Viewing the Message and Error Text of a Process Instance
Viewing a Process Instance Message Map
Skipping an Activity

Related reference

Filter Process Instances Interface
Instances by Process Definition Interface