Community Features

First, navigate to the Process Definition View and click on the eye icon of the process instance of interest to open the Process Instance View. In the following screenshot, the icon is highlighted with an orange frame on the right.

This view allows you to check a single process instance and explore its running activities, as well as the variables, tasks, jobs, etc. The detailed information panel will be shown with the tabs 'Variables', 'Incidents', 'User tasks', 'Jobs', 'Called Process Instances', and 'External tasks'.

Information Panel

Variables that belong to the instance will be listed in a variables table of the Information Panel in the lower part. This view is marked with a orange frame in the next screenshot.

Furthermore, you can maximize the bpmn diagram view by clicking on the button, at the top left above the Information Panel.

In the detailed information panel to get an overview of the variables, incidents, called process instances, user tasks and external tasks that the process instance contains. In addition you can edit variables or change the assignees of user tasks.

Variables Tab

Sorting Variables

In the variables tab, you can sort variables by 'name', 'type', 'value', and 'scope'. Click on the corresponding header titles to toggle between ascending and descending order. The header titles are highlighted in orange in the following screenshot.

Add Variables

Hit the button on the right side to add variables to a process instance. You can choose between different data types. Please note that variables will be overwritten if you add a new variable with an existing name.

Edit Variables

Edit variables in the list of variables by using the symbol. This feature allows you to change the value. The symbol is highlighted with an orange frame in the following screenshot.

Delete Variables

Next to the edit button you will find a button with a trash icon . Use this icon to delete single variables. After deletion, these variables cannot be used in the running process.

Call Activity

Call activity instances that call at least one process instance have a paperclip button on the lower right corner that links to their called process instances (see next screenshot).

If the call activity instance calls exactly one process instance, then clicking the overlay redirects to the called process instance page. However, if the number of called process instances exceeds one, then clicking the overlay will show the called process instances tab containing only process instances called by the selected call activity instance.

Incidents Tab

In the Incidents Tab you can click on the incident message name, which will open the stacktrace of the selected incident. Furthermore, you can increment the number of retries for a failed job by hitting the button and add an annotation by hitting the button.

User Tasks Tab

The User Tasks Tab allows managing users and groups for selected user tasks. Hit the button to open the corresponding menu.

Jobs Tab

The Jobs Tab gives you an overview of all currently active jobs.

Called Process Instances Tab

The Called Process Instances Tab gives you information about all the called activities in the process in case the process uses call activities.

Enterprise Features

In the enterprise version, more features are visible. The enterprise features are marked in orange in the next screenshot.

The features are:

• Audit Log
• Executed decision instances
• User operations
• Job log
• External tasks log
• Modify
• Documentation

See the next subsections to find more information to each of this point.

Audit Log Tab

In the Audit Log, you can find a detailed overview of the activities that took place within the process instance. The columns, from left to right, are 'state', 'activity', 'start time', 'end time', and 'activity instance ID'.

Executed Decision Instances Tab

In the Executed Decision Instances tab, you can find an overview of all decision instances that were evaluated in this process instance. From left to right, you will find the columns 'ID', 'evaluation time', 'decision definition key', 'decision requirements definition', and 'activity'. Clicking on the 'ID' of the decision instance will take you to the decision instance view page for this instance. Clicking on the 'decision definition key' will take you to the decision definition view page for the definition of this decision instance.

User Operations Tab

In the User Operations tab, you can see the 'operation', 'process instance', 'user', 'change time', 'property', and 'new value'.

Job Log Tab

In the Job Log tab, you can find an overview of all job-related events of this process instance and the details of the specific jobs. From left to right, you will find the columns 'state', 'message', 'timestamp', 'due date', 'activity', 'failed activity', 'job ID', 'type', 'configuration retries', 'hostname', and 'priority'. If you click on the 'activity', the diagram will jump to this selected activity.

External Tasks Log Tab

In the External Tasks Log, you can find an overview of all external tasks of this process instance. This includes information about the 'external task ID', the 'state' of the external task and the the 'timestamp'. In case an external task has failed you will find the 'error message'. Moreover, the 'activity name', the 'retries', the 'worker ID', the 'topic', and the 'priority' can be seen.

Modify Tab

For further details check out the chapter Process Modification.

Documentation Tab

This feature allows you to inspect documentation added in the Camunda Modeler. The documentation table lists all documented elements.