Skipping activities in BPEL processes

You can skip an activity so that it is not included in the processing of the BPEL process instance.

About this task

To mark an activity to be skipped, complete the following steps in Business Process Choreographer Explorer.

In the Views tab, navigate to the Process State page of the process instance.
Click the relevant activity in the process state diagram.
Note that skip and jump actions are only available if the Detail level slider of the process state diagram is at the most detailed level.
Perform one of these skip actions.
- Click Skip Activity to mark this activity to be skipped. The activity is then indicated by the skip requested icon . Activities that are skipped are indicated by the skipped icon .
  To perform this action, you must be a process administrator or a scope administrator of the scope or a parent scope to which the source and target activities belong.
  
  The Skip Activity action is available for any activity state. An activity that is in an end state is marked to be skipped but the state of the activity remains unchanged until it is reached again by the navigation. Therefore, if an activity is already in an end state, the activity is skipped as soon as it is activated again.
- To unmark the activity to be skipped, click Cancel Skip. This cancels a previously selected skip activity request.
- Alternatively, to skip the activity and jump to another activity, click Jump to Another Activity.
  The diagram is displayed again, and only activities that qualify as target activities are selectable. Note that the options available depend on the source activity.
  
  To skip the activity and jump to another activity, click Skip Source Activity and Jump.