Viewing a Process Instance in Graphical View |
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Before you begin this task:
You must have the Administrator role
While executing a Business process model, the process instance may go through a different set of execution states while executing the activities. Viewing the graphical representation of a Process instance will allow the users to visualize the progress of the process instance along with its activity details.
The graphical view shows the actual state of a process. For all the executed activities, the corresponding state icon is depicted at the bottom -right corner.
- To view a business process in graphical view, do any one of the following:
Starting point
Procedure
Process Instance Manager (PIM) - To see the graphical view of a process instance
1.In My Applications App Palette, click
(Process Instance Manager). The Process Instance Manager window appears.
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 details. The Instances by Process Definition window appears.
6.Select the process instance, and click!subprocess.png! (Show Sub-Processes) icon. The Sub-Processes pane appears.Deployed Process Models - To see the graphical view of a process model
In My Applications palette, click
(Deployed Process Models). The Deployed Process Models window appears displaying a list of all deployed business process models. - Click
(Show Graphical View) on the toolbar or right-click the process instance and select Show Graphical View. Alternatively, right-click the process instance and select Show Graphical View.
Note:
- To view the previous process instance and navigate back to the current process instance of a published business process, click the required navigation icons that appear on the activity that is associated with any one or more of the BPMN group constructs. For example, For Each, While, Until, Embedded Sub-process and Transaction.
- If a process instance has an aborted Transaction, right-click the Transaction construct and select Show Error Text to view the error text in its message map.
- To view the previous process instance and navigate back to the current process instance of a published business process, click the required navigation icons that appear on the activity that is associated with any one or more of the BPMN group constructs. For example, For Each, While, Until, Embedded Sub-process and Transaction.
Interpretation of graphical view of process instance
When a process instance is viewed in graphical view, the activities of the process will be represented with various image and graphical notation based on their execution status.
- Single Thick Border around an activity denotes that the activity has been executed.
- Double walled Green colored border around an activity denotes that the process execution is in that activity.
- Completed Symbol (
) in an activity denotes that the activity is in Completed state. - Pause Symbol (
) in an activity denotes that the activity is in Waiting state. - Suspended symbol (
) in an activity denotes that the activity is in Suspended state. - Red icon(with symbol similar to Close) (
) denotes that the activity has been terminated. - Red colored border around an activity denotes that the execution of the activity has failed.
- Red colored broken-line border around an activity and a Red icon(with a single diagonal line) in the activity denotes that the activity has got aborted.
- Blue colored broken-line border around an activity and a Skip icon in the activity denotes that the activity has been skipped.