Flow Management Dashboard
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Flow Management Dashboard
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Overview
The Flow Management Dashboard is a useful tool in Decisions that can be used to view statistics and data that relate to Flows in the Decisions environment. The following document discusses the various features available to this dashboard, and how to use them.
Flow Management
To find the Flow Management Dashboard, navigate to System > Administration > System Tools > Flow Management. Users will then see the FLOW MANAGEMENT tab. This tab displays info in the form of Diagram Tiles for how many Stored Flows exist in the environment, the number of Recent Flow Runs, and the percentage of the CPU that is utilized by the Flows.
About CPU Usage
Note that Decisions calculates and obtains information regarding CPU usage based upon values obtained via the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) of the system running Decisions.
To supplement the Stored Flows statistic, the tab contains a Report displaying all the Stored Flows alongside a Report that details the steps in each respective Flow.
Flow Step Details
Selecting a Flow from the Stored Workflow List displays the Selected Flow Step Details for that Flow, in a Report to the right. Right-clicking a step in this list provides an additional menu of actions that can be implemented on the selected step. These actions differ depending on whether the step is Historical or Current.
The following is a list of the Selected Flow Step Details actions common to both types of steps.
Remove | Removes the selected step. |
| Start Engine | |
| Storage | Allows the ability to store and reload Flow data. |
| Edit Flow Data | Shows a submenu of all of the data available in the Flow at that step. this option allows users to edit that data. Edited data will show up in the next Assignment after the edited information. |
| Advanced: Kill Flow | Ends the process |
| Advanced: Turn off Profiling | Turns Profiling off (for data collecting). |
| Advanced: Turn on Profiling | Turns Profiling on (for data collecting). |
The following are available only to Current steps.
| Edit Step Start Data | Shows a submenu of all of the data available in the Flow at that step. This option allows users to edit that data at the start of the step. This option is only available for current steps. |
| Re-Run Step | Restarts the current step. |
| Complete Step | Completes the current step and allows users to choose the outcome path. |
The following are actions made exclusive to Historical steps.
| Restart at Step | Rollback a Flow and restart at the selected step. |
| Start After | Allows users to roll back to the end of the step. Provides to choose the outcome path from the step. |
Integration Activities
The INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES tab, displays activity relating to external systems.
For example, the screenshot below shows that a Send Email step ran successfully multiple times as well as the Date and Time that it was executed (First Submitted On).
Additionally, this screen, allows users to perform various actions such as re-running the Event via Re-Run Now, Stop Retry, and Show Sender/ Recipients.
Running Flows
RUNNING FLOWS shows details about currently running Flows. The Running Flows Report displays the FLOWTRACKINGID, MAINFLOWNAME, and the NUMBEROFSTEPS in the Flow as well as additional details.
From this screen, users are able to Kill Running Flows and turn on and off Profiling as well as Flow Tracing..png)
Report Accuracy
The Running Flows Report is reliant on event updates and a thread job that runs every two minutes. It does not represent the exact moment the report is run, but rather the previous four to five minute window.
Also note that the report is per node and is not cluster aware.
Also note that the report is per node and is not cluster aware.
Stored Workflows
The STORED WORKFLOWS tab, displays details about the stored Flows such as the Size (SIZE DATA STORAGE), LAST MODIFIED, and CREATED ON DATE.
Users are given the ability to End Flows at this screen and Clear Flow Data via the right-click action menu.
Recent Flow Results
The RECENT FLOW RESULTS tab displays details about Flows that were recently run such as the FLOW START Time, FLOW END Time, RUN TIME, and whether or not the Flow ENDED BY ERROR.
Flow Step Timing
The Flow Step Timing screen shows further details about Flows that ran, such as what steps they contain (STEP NAME) and the TIME each step took to run, grouped by the PRIMARY FLOW NAME.
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Step Run Stats
The STEP RUN STATS tab shows details about commonly used steps. The chart displays the Flows that contain these steps as well as Activity over Time. Clicking on a bar in the top graph will provide a more detailed view of this information.
Flow and Rule Validation
The FLOW AND RULE VALIDATION tab shows Flows and Rules that contain Validation Issues. This screen displays the Flow NAME and PATH, as well as the VALIDATION ISSUE.
Users provided an Action menu identical to that of a standard Flow Action menu.
Flow Structure
The final tab on the Flow Management Dashboard is FLOW STRUCTURE. This Report shows every step used in every Flow in the environment. Users may use filter each column to find Flows based on specific parameters.
For example, to see every Flow that used Foreach Step, filter the Report by Step Name.
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