Configuring Workflow Execution

In the Workflow Execution section, you can select options for descriptor and priority behavior.

• Descriptors
• Modifying Priority Change Behavior
• Abort Process
• Abort Activity

Figure: Workflow Execution

Descriptors

Via the option Suppress Display of Blank Descriptors, you can determine if descriptors, that have no values in the Descriptors column of an activity or process table, should not be displayed. This option is selected by default.

Modifying Priority Change Behavior

Per default, priority changes of a process instance are not propagated to its subprocesses. You have the option to select Propagate Priority Change to Subprocesses to choose whether changing a process priority should also affect its subprocess instances.

Abort Process

Per default, a dialog opens when aborting a process to ask if to abort the complete process hierarchy or the activity and subprocesses only. In case you have administrator rights, you can choose default settings for aborting processes. In the provided drop-down list you can select whether to automatically abort the root hierarchy, abort the process sub-hierarchy, or open a dialog when a process is aborted (the default behavior).

• Abort Only the Current Process: The process abort is performed starting from the current process and does not propagate upwards (to super process instances).
• Abort the Entire (Root) Process: The process abort is performed starting from the root process instance. All activities in the hierarchy of the process instance which are not yet being terminated will be aborted. The process instance state after the process abort is Aborted.
• Prompt: Present the Abort Process dialog below.

Figure: Abort Process Settings

Abort Activity

In case you have administrator rights, you can choose default settings for aborting activities. You can choose to select whether to automatically abort the root hierarchy, abort the activity only, or prompt when an activity is aborted, which is the default setting.

• Abort Only the Current Activity:
  • If the activity instance is not a subprocess, the process continues in a way as if the activity is completed. This means for example that the process has the state Completed if the last activity of the process will be aborted.
  • In case the activity is a subprocess, the subprocess hierarchy and the subprocess themselves will be aborted, but the process continues as usual.
  The activity instance state, which was given for the abort process, is set to Aborted in all cases.
• Abort the Entire (Root) Process: The abort is performed starting from the root process instance. All activities in the hierarchy of the process instance, which are not yet terminated, will be aborted. The process instance state after the process abort is Aborted.
• Prompt: Present the Abort Activity dialog.

Figure: Abort Activity Settings