# Workflow

## How to Suspend, Resume or Abort a Process

| ### What to do:
| As a prerequisite for this example you must have completed the example Start a Process. When an error occurs while a process is starting or running, a message is displayed in the process history . (mask Process in Definition and mask Process in Execution > History tab). In these cases suspend and resume the process.
| Running processes can also be stopped and resumed via the Process Console!
| Display and Edit Process Data
| Select Start > Workflow > Processes in Execution.
| Select the Purchase Requisition process.
| Click . The process is stopped. The Phase field contains Suspended.
| Click .
| The process is resumed. The Phase field contains Execution.
| To abort a process click ! First the process must be stopped!