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  • Synchronized: Displays workflows that have been deployed to a Controller and Agent. Such workflows are considered in sync between inventory and Controller.
  • Not Synchronized: Displays workflows that are not available with a Controller as they have not been deployed or have been revoked. No orders can be added to such workflows.
  • Suspended: Displays workflows in with the suspended or suspending status.

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Status Operations are available individually per workflow and are available as bulk operations when users select a number of workflows in the Workflows view.

Suspend

The suspend operation to suspend for a workflow includes means that:

  • orders running in the workflow will be frozen after they complete their current processing step.
    • This implies that orders are not cancelled and running tasks for jobs are not killed.
  • orders scheduled for execution of the workflow that reach their start time while the workflow is suspended will wait until the workflow is resumed.
  • orders that are added to the workflow for execution at a point in time while the workflow is suspended will wait until the workflow is resumed.
    • This applies to orders added from the Workflows view.
    • This applies to file orders added from JS7 - File Watching.

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  • The orange status button indicates suspension.
  • Orders running in the workflow switch to the in Progress state to indicate that they are frozen.


The operation to suspend of suspending a workflow can include a number of Agents:

  • Should If different Agents be are used in a workflow and should if one of them is not be available then the workflow remains in the suspending status until all Agents confirm suspension.
  • If orders are added to a suspending workflow with an unavailable Agent then they switch to the blocked state.
  • Orders in the in Progress or blocked state will be continued when the workflow is resumed.

Resume

For a suspended workflow the The Resume operation is available for a suspended workflow from its action menu.

With the workflow being resumed orders Orders waiting in the workflow in the in Progress or blocked state states will continue when the workflow is resumed.

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