Finding unresolved flows

You can construct queries that select only the unresolved flows that match criteria that you specify. To construct queries, you must first start Flow Manager. See Starting Flow Manager for instructions on starting Flow Manager. The following topics describe how to contruct queries to find unresolved flows.

Finding all unresolved flows

Finding specific unresolved flows

Managing queries

Finding all unresolved flows

If you want to locate and display all unresolved flows, accept the defaults of "any" for all the fields, then click the Find button or select Find from the Event menu. The system will locate all unresolved flows and display their details.

Finding specific unresolved flows

If you want to construct a query to find specific flows, refer to the following sections that describe the search options in each tab. After specifying your search criteria, click the Find button or select Find from the Event menu.

Event Attributes tab

Choose the Event Attributes tab to search according to the characteristics of the unresolved event. The following figure shows the Event Attributes tab.

Figure 4. Event Attribute tab


The following options are available from the Event Attributes tab:

Date & Time tab

Use the Date & Time tab to query only the flows that failed during a specific time period. The following figure shows the Date & Time tab.

The following options are available from the Date & Time tab:

Error Text & BO Attributes tab

Use the Error Text & BO Attributes tab to construct a query that includes only certain business objects, business object attributes, and attribute values.

The following figure shows the Error Text & Business Object Attributes tab.

Make selections in the following columns:

You can also query only unresolved flows that produce a message containing specified text that you enter in the Containing Error Text field.

Note:
The key words you enter in the Containing Error Text field are not case-sensitive.

Managing queries

You can use the menu options in the following table to manage queries. For information on taking action on unresolved flows, refer to Handling unresolved flows.

Table 1. Flow Manager menu options
Menu option Description
Event > Find Finds all the unresolved events with the specified filter information. As a shortcut, you can also click the Find button.
Event > Delete Deletes one or more selected events in the result frame.
Event > Save Saves all the events in the result frame in an Excel format.
Event > Print Prints the selected events or all the events in the result frame in a table format. A dialog appears prompting you to select Print All Events or Print Selected Events.
Event > Get Count Gets a number of the events corresponding to the current query.
Event > New Search Clears all the result events, close the result frame, and refresh all the filter controls.
Event >Exit Exits Flow Manager.
Query > Delete Deletes the query that appears in the Query menu.
Query > Save Save the current filter information as a query; the query name entered appears in the Query menu.
Query > Show/Hide Show or hide the content of the query.

See also:

Overview

Starting Flow Manager

Viewing details of unresolved flows

Handling unresolved flows

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