The Workflow Instance Elements tab in the settings makes the individual element executions of workflow instances viewable. This makes it easier to trace a process and troubleshoot it when a workflow doesn’t behave as expected.

Instance of a workflow execution ✓ Start ✓ Read balance ✓ Gateway Dunning letter ● waiting here Send completed current open

Same colors as in the editor: green already completed, blue the current position. This lets you immediately see where an instance stands or gets stuck.

What you use it for

  • Tracing which elements a particular instance has passed through, and in what order.
  • Narrowing down where a problem occurred – complementing the incidents, which report the error itself.

How to narrow down an error

  1. Select the instance

    Select the affected workflow instance – usually the one belonging to the case in question.

  2. Go through the elements

    Follow the element executions in order. Wherever the chain breaks off or stalls is where the cause lies.

  3. Cross-check with incident & editor

    Open the associated incident for the error message and check the element in the editor. There, the element information toggle displays the same figures graphically on the model.