Example 1: Receive Aggregated Process Step Status
The following tables each show a section of the process activity log of the participating systems as well as the relevant process activity overview. The log and overview entries are fictitious and are shown in a simplified manner.
Process Activity Log System A:
Log Entry ID |
Business Process ID |
Message ID/Process Step ID |
Activity Status |
Name |
Message Direction |
Activity Category |
System ID |
Time Stamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entry 1 |
BP1 |
S1 |
Started |
Create Loan Account |
Outgoing |
Service Call |
SysA |
Start Time |
Entry 1 System A sends a service message for the creation of a loan account to System B.
Process Activity Log System B:
Log Entry ID |
Business Process ID |
Message ID/Process Step ID |
Activity Status |
Name |
Message Direction |
Activity Category |
System ID |
Time Stamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entry 2 |
BP1 |
S1 |
Completed |
Create Loan Account |
Incoming |
Service Call |
SysB |
Start Time +1 |
Entry 3 |
BP1 |
S2 |
Started |
Confirm Creation of Loan Account |
Outgoing |
Service Call |
SysB |
Start Time +2 |
Entry 2 System B has successfully processed the service message and created the loan account.
Entry 3 System B sends this information to System C in the form of a service message.
Process Activity Log System C:
Log Entry ID |
Business Process ID |
Message ID/Process Step ID |
Activity Status |
Name |
Message Direction |
Activity Category |
System ID |
Time Stamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entry 4 |
BP1 |
S2 |
Completed |
Confirm Creation of Loan Account |
Incoming |
Service Call |
SysC |
Start Time +3 |
Entry 4 System C has successfully processed the service message, thereby completing the process step.
The entries logged in these three systems result in the aggregated process step status Received, for both process steps, in the Process Activity Overview. The individual log entries are grouped here as follows:
Message ID/Process Step ID |
Business Process ID |
Message ID/Process Step ID of the Predecessor |
Technical Reference ID |
Sender |
Recipient |
Aggregated Process Step Status |
Status History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S1 |
BP1 |
- (No Predecessors) |
d0e4da50-4c2a-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66 |
SysA |
SysB |
Received |
Entry 1 and Entry 2 including all attributes |
S2 |
BP1 |
S1 |
1ee23720-4c2b-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66 |
SysB |
SysC |
Received |
Entry 3 and Entry 4 including all attributes |
The status history contains all the information about the individual log entries that the Process Step Journal used to derive the aggregated process step status for the underlying process step.