“Other” Tab Page 

Use

You can define the following on this tab page:

·        Step priority

·        Table-driven dynamic parallel processing.

·        Settings for background work items

Features

Step priority

You define what priority the work items created for this step have here. Dialog work items of priority 1 are displayed in the Business Workplace as express work items.

Table-Driven Dynamic Parallel Processing

You can define table-driven dynamic parallel processing for this step. To do so, specify a multiline container element. At runtime, the system generates a processing instance for each line of the multiline container element. All processing instances are processed in parallel.

A container element <name_multiline_container_element>_LINE ,which at runtime contains the lines in the multiline container element that are processed, is created automatically in the work item container of the step.

You can specify an end condition. This is checked once one of the parallel processing branches has been processed.

Settings for Background Work Items

Repeat counter for work items with temporary errors

Maximum number of attempts made by the system to restart a background work item with temporary errors. If all of the attempts are unsuccessful, the work item status is set to:

·        Error (if the temporary exception is not modeled)

·        Completed (if the temporary exception is modeled)

This function is only available for steps that refer to a task without dialog ("background task").

If the repeat counter has the value 0, the maximum number of retries is determined from the Customizing setting. You can change this setting in Administration. For more information, see Workflow Runtime Administration and Error Handling for Background Work Items.

Time from work item creation to timeout

The workflow system administrator receives a notification by e-mail if a background work item has the status in process for longer than 10 minutes. In this field you can increase this period for background work items if you expect the execution of the work items to take longer. This may apply if the background work item is set to status completed by a terminating event.