Using the Process Explorer tool

The Process Explorer display is available to all developers. This display conveys the relationships among flow rules that apply to a single work pool.

Select File > Open > Work Pool to view or change your current work pool.

Starting the Process Explorer

Use any of these navigational methods to access the Flow Explorer display:

• From the Home page, click to access the Process slice. Choose Explorer in the drop-down list. The group labeled Processes for the ZZZZ Application includes the Process Explorer display, where ZZZZ is the current work pool name.
• When a flow rule is open and front-most in the Developer portal, click the Related Rules toolbar button (). Select Flow Explorer for flow... from the drop-down menu. The Process Explorer appears with the selected flow as a starting point.

Working with the Display

You can expand or contract the display.

1. Select By Description? to present Short Description text within the rectangle that displays each flow rule. Clear this check box to present the Flow Type key part instead.
2. Starter flows — those that create new work objects — appear at the left of the display. Subflows (called, branched to or referenced by a Split-Join or Split-ForEach shape) appear to the right.
3. A large application may contain many levels of subflows. Adjust the Levels control to determine how many levels are presented. If the window is too narrow to show them all, use the horizontal scroll bars to see the flows of interest.
4. Click any rectangle to open the corresponding flow rule.

Notes

• Your Internet Explorer browser must include a Flash 9 plug-in from Adobe Systems to use the Process Explorer. See How to set up Internet Explorer.
• One flow may be called or branched to by multiple subflows, and may appear at more than one level.
• The display includes flow rules in the following RuleSets and versions:
  1. The RuleSet and version of the class rule that corresponds to the work pool name selected in the work pool selector field.
  2. RuleSets and versions that appear above that RuleSet on your RuleSet list, if the RuleSet Name instance lists the RuleSet identified in 1. as a prerequisite.
  3. Flow rules in your private RuleSet but not belonging to the current application) do not appear. Orphan flow rules, that do not create a work object and are not referenced as a subflow by others, do not appear.

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