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6. Ops Portal View - Run Control
6. Ops Portal View - Run Control

Creating a view to display the details of a specific flow run.

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This tutorial will show how to create a view with the Ops Portal Run control. The Run view allows viewing and investigating the details of a specifically identified historic run of a flow.

Run control will show the status of the flow. It will provide details on a selected flow which can be filtered.

The information provided by this view is used to monitor and investigate any issues and errors that may be encountered with the selected Flow.

The article provides guidance on how to:

For more details on the Run control, click on the following link:

Creating an Ops Portal Run View

Open the Operations Portal created earlier, go to the Operations Portal menu and click the plus button to add a new View.

  1. Give the View a name and a meaningful description (description optional).

  2. Click on the Save View button.


Select the Control type

Each Ops Portal view can be configured to use a specific control type. Select the Run option which requires that the Run ID of the selected Flow is entered when the flow is executed.

  1. Click on the Control field.

  2. The selection list opens, now select the Run option.

Select the Flow

Select the desired flow from the dropdown list or alternatively create a new flow by clicking on the highlighted plus button. It is the detail of a specific run of this Flow's execution selected by its ID that will be displayed when the view is run.

Select the Solution

Select the Solution where the flow resides.

  1. Click in the Solution field.

  2. Select the Solution from the selection list.

Options

Select the following options to further define the View.

Only for User checkbox – Only show runs for the logged-in user.

Allow Events checkbox – Allow access to run events.

Allow Records checkbox – Allow access to run records.

For this article, the Allow Events and Allow Records checkboxes are selected.

When the View's configuration is completed, click the Save View button.

Execute the View

To manually execute the view, follow these instructions:

1. Select the Ops Portal option in the Account menu to open the Operations Portal. This is also the method used by the operations personnel to process these views.

2. Select the Ops Portal view that was created from the list of available views.

3. Enter the Run ID. Copy the Run ID from the executed flow and paste into the outlined area in the image below.

4. Click the Load Run button as highlighted in the below image.

The view displays the details of the flow.

  • The RunID value is outlined in red in the image above. This is used to identify the details of the run for debugging.

  • The name of the Flow associated with the RunID is shown.

  • The Total Records Completed by the Flow are also shown.

  • The View RunEvents button is available to display any events associated with the flow.

The Flow Canvas displays the flow that was executed and the following information is shown:

  • An info panel showing dates and times related to the run.

  • Each step object in the flow also shows the following:


    C: The number of records that were Completed.
    E: The number of records in Error.
    O: Other. These are the number of line items in the output that are not valid records but skipped records or Headers or Footers.


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