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Working with Stop Steps

Stop steps are used to raise an error to the user and terminate the workflow process instance.

The main parts of creating a stop step for a workflow process are:

Table 29 describes how the Stop step is handled, depending on how it is called and in which object manager it is running.

Table 29. How Workflow Process Manager Handles Stop Steps
Stop Step Conditions
Results
Workflow policy calls a process that contains a Stop step.
 
Workflow Process Manager:
  • Exits
  • Writes an error message to the log file.
A script or runtime event calls a process that contains a Stop step.
  • Process is running in the Workflow Process Manager object manager.
Workflow Process Manager:
  • Writes an error message to the log file.
  • Process is running in the application object manager.
Workflow Process Manager:
  • Flags an error message to the user.


 Siebel Business Process Designer Administration Guide 
 Published: 29 May 2003