Manually complete a dependency

About this task

You can manually complete a dependency, so that a work item no longer needs to wait for that dependency to be met. You can select any dependency within a flow and complete it. This is useful if the duration on a file event has expired, and the file is now available, or if you determine that the dependency can never be met, and there is a case for running the work item anyway.You can also manually complete a dependency that triggers a flow.

Procedure

  1. To manually complete a dependency within a flow, open the flow in the Flow Manager. To manually complete a dependency that triggers a flow, from the View menu, select Global View to display all of the flows.
  2. Right-click on the dependency line representing the dependency you want to complete.
  3. Select Complete Dependency. The dependency is completed, removing the dependency only for this occurrence of the flow. Completing a dependency has no impact on the flow definition.
    Note:

    Removing a dependency does not automatically make a work item eligible to run—if it has other dependencies, it will wait for those to be met, unless you complete them also.