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Modify the variables of a stopped activity

Check the variables of an activity, and repair the process variables if they caused the activity to stop.

The process must be in the running state. To see the exposed variables of an activity, you need at least scope reader or process reader authority. If the value of the variable can be modified, you must be a scope administrator or system administrator to modify it. However, if Business Flow Manager is using the alternative process administration mode that restricts process administration to system administrators, then only users in the BPESystemAdministrator role can perform this action.

During the lifetime of a process, problems can occur due to incorrect or missing values in the variables that control the BPEL process behavior. You can access all the exposed variables of an activity and repair the process by modifying the variable values. After you make the changes, you can continue process navigation.

Complete the following steps in Business Process Choreographer Explorer.


Procedure

  1. In the Views tab, navigate to the Process Instance page.

    For example, on the Critical Processes page, click the name of a process instance. On the Process Instance page, click the Activities tab, and click the name of the stopped activity.

    Alternatively, to view stopped activities, click Stopped Activities under Activity Instances in the navigation pane. Then click the relevant activity.

  2. Click Variables to get a list of all of the variables that are visible to the activity.

  3. Select a variable name to see the value.

  4. Click Edit to modify the value, and click Save to update the value settings of the variable.

    Attention: Although the Save action is always available, you might get an error message if the variable cannot be modified.

Repairing BPEL processes and activities using Business Process Choreographer Explorer


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An activity has stopped because of an unhandled fault (Message: CWWBE0057I)