Recording and playing back process versions

Record process instances as they execute at run time and then play them back to observe the behavior of the process:

See which routes are followed when the process is executed.
Determine the values that variables are assigned at each step in the process.

Recording and playing back is useful for testing process versions in the development environment before performing formal testing in a staging environment.

Note: If your process includes no operations or includes only an event start point, you need to add the Decision Point operation to the process diagram so that process Input variable values are recorded.

Process recordings are saved on the LiveCycle ES server so that they are available to other developers running other installations of LiveCycle Workbench ES.

Before testing process versions by recording and playing them back, you should validate them. (See Validating process versions.)

The following procedure describes the tasks that you perform to record process executions and play them back:

Enable recording for the process version. (See Enabling and disabling recording.)
Invoke the process version. (See Invoking process versions.)
Play back the recorded process instance. (See Playing back process recordings.)
Delete recorded process instances that you no longer need. (See Deleting recordings.)
Disable recording for the process version. (See Enabling and disabling recording.)
Note: In case an endless loop is executing in a process instance, for each process instance a maximum of 250 operation executions can be recorded. This limitation preserves server resources in the event of an endless loop.

Recording and playing back process versions

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