Administering compensation for microflows

When a microflow runs, it can encounter problems. For these situations, compensation might have been defined for the process in the process model. Compensation allows you to undo previous completed steps, for example, to reset data and states so that you can recover from these problems.

Before you begin

For microflows to be compensated, the compensation service must be started in the administrative console.

Why and when to perform this task

If a compensation action for a microflow fails, the process administrator must intervene to resolve the problem.

In Business Process Choreographer Explorer, complete the following steps to administer failed compensation actions.

Steps for this task

  1. Display a list of the compensation actions that failed.

    Click Failed Compensations under Process Instances in the navigation pane.

    The Failed Compensations page is displayed. This page contains information about why the named compensation action failed. This information can help you to decide what actions to take to correct the failed compensation.

  2. Select the check box next to the activity and then click one of the available actions.

    The following administrative actions are available:

    Skip
    Skips the current compensating action and continues with compensating the microflow. This action might result in a non-compensated activity.
    Retry
    If you have taken action to correct the failed compensation action, click Retry to try the compensation action again.
    Stop
    Stops the compensation processing.
Related tasks
Administering the compensation service for a server
Using Business Process Choreographer Explorer

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