Administrating Business Processes

Administration of business processes is used for advanced process debugging: adding access permissions to business processes, recreating a group of users, removing the whole process history. To administer business processes, use the Administration page in the Parameters Setup and Business Processes Administration dialog box.

To open the Administration page

IMPORTANT. Those operations are designed for advanced debugging. The use of properties can provoke a data loss. Executing the operations is not recommended without technical support consulting.

Set parameters:

Add Read Permissions to Segments Container Folder. Select the user in the drop-down list of security manager subjects to grant access to business processes. Click the Apply button to add read permissions to segments container folder for the user.
Operations. Execute operations if required:

Update Group of Processes Users. Before executing the operation, make sure that users are included in the BPM_ALL_USERS group of business processes users that is created on installing the extension. When executing the operation, users are granted with access permissions to business processes, if they did not get it before.

Recreate Group of Processes Users. When the operation is executed, the BPM_ALL_USERS group of users having access to business processes is created, if the extension installation failed. If the extension is installed correctly, the group is created automatically.
Check Subprocesses Versions.

NOTE. The operation is outdated, subprocesses versions are updated automatically.

Segments Validation.

NOTE. The operation is outdated, select the Clear Monitoring item on the Debug page.

Clear Processes Versions and History. When executing the operation, the entire history of processes stored in tables is deleted. To execute the operation, the information dialog box opens to confirm the action.
Check Deadline Disruption. When executing the operation, it is checked if there are steps execution deadline disruptions. If failures are found, the email notification is sent and/or the Fore method is executed, depending on settings determined on the Events page of the step wizard.

NOTE. To automatically check step execution deadline disruptions, set up server execution of processes, select the Check Deadline Disruption of Steps checkbox and set check frequency on the Scheduler page.

Process Instances Emergency Stop. Emergency stop of business process instances if it is impossible to stop process in the monitoring window.

NOTE. Users are not recommended to work with processes during instances emergency stop.

When the operation is executed, the Process Instances Emergency Stop dialog box opens:

To stop business process instances, specify:

Processes. Select one or several processes in the drop-down list. The list contains repository objects tree that displays only processes and folders containing them.
Instances. In the drop-down list select the process instances, which execution must be stopped. The hierarchical list contains running processes and instances. To stop all process instances, select the process in the drop-down list.

After the process instances to be stopped are selected, click the Execute button. As a result, the specified instances are stopped and are hidden in the process monitoring window.

The operations execution process is displayed in the right part of the Administration dialog box.