Business Process Detail Page Field Descriptions

The Business Process Detail page provides detailed processing information to enable you to perform activities.

In the Business Process Detail page, the following fields provide detailed processing information and enable you to perform activities, as appropriate:

Name
Name of the instance for which you are viewing details. Click the name to view the BPML code that makes up the instance.
Instance ID
Number assigned by Sterling B2B Integrator to identify this instance.
Status
Current® status of this instance. Possible status levels are:
  • Success
  • Error
State
Current state of this instance. The following list shows possible states:
  • Active
Note: If the state is Active and Queued, while the State field displays Active, a ticking clock icon and the phrase Process has been placed in queue ... display above the table that details the process steps.
  • Completed
  • Terminated
  • Waiting
  • Waiting_on_IO
  • Interrupted_Auto(matically)
  • Interrupted_Man(ually)
  • Halting
  • Halted
User
User having permission to run this business process.
Deadline
How much time the process may take to complete, as configured in the business process model deadline setting.
Contract ID
ID of the contract defined in the trading profile associated with this process.
Action
Actions you may perform related to this business process instance. The available selections display according to whether the instance is currently active or stopped. Possible actions are:
  • Restart – Continue running the instance at the step where it stopped.
  • Expedite – Move a queued process to the front of the queue.
    Note: In a clustered environment, a business process can be expedited only on the node where the business process is running. It cannot be expedited from a different node in a cluster.
  • Stop – Stop running the instance (you can restart or resume it later).
  • Terminate –Stop running the instance, and stop or cancel any remaining active and waiting subprocesses.
  • XML report – Generates an XML report that describes the instance components, activities and participants.
Note: If you terminate a waiting instance, the State field may indicate messages in the following order: Halting > Halted > Terminated.
Step
The steps in the process instance are numbered, for identification purposes, in order of occurrence as indicated in this column.
Service
Name of the service running for a current step. Click the service name to view settings for a service in this instance.
Status
Current status of the steps in this instance. Possible status levels are:
  • Success
  • Error

Error statuses provide an explanation of the error, such as “Service Configuration Error.”

Advanced Status
Additional service-specific details about any status errors reported in the previous column. For a list of possible messages and recommended actions, see Advanced Status Messages.
Started
Date and time the step of the instance started.
Ended
Date and time the step of the instance ended.
Status Report
Pop-up report provides the results of a service. To view the status report, click info.
Document
Business process document that this service is processing (that is, the primary document). To view the document, click info.
Instance Data
Link to process data for the step. To view the information, click info. See View the Process Data for a Single Step in a Process.