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• The Workflows View offers a tactical execution view that can be used to monitor the processing of orders with workflows in near real-time and to perform interventions if required. For details see JS7 - Workflows - Status Operations on Orders
• The Dashboard View offers a summary of current order states that and navigation to the Orders Overview which allows bulk operations.

Orders can be cancelled and , can be suspended to prevent execution of jobs and they can be resumed :

Status Operations on Orders

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

The following sample workflow is available that allow to 

from bulk operations.

Dashboard

The Order Summary is visible in near real-time from the JS7 - Dashboard view:

• In the left upper corner of the Dashboard the Orders widget displays the overall number of orders per state.
• Find details about order states from the JS7 - Orders article.
  
  

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Explanation:

• The widget displays the number of orders per state.
  • Information about order states is provided in the JS7 - Order State Transitions article.
  • Detailed information about this widget is provided in the JS7 - Orders article.
  • The Order Summary is displayed for a selected date range (today, next hour etc.).
• Users can navigate to the Orders Overview by clicking the indicated number of orders per state.

Orders Overview

The view is available in the following forms:

• Tabular View
• Card View
• Bulk View

Orders Overview: Tabular View

The Tabular View is indicated by the Image Added selector icon in the right upper corner of the window like this:

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Explanation:

• The view provides a number of filters for dates and order states.
• In addition, bulk operations are available:
  • for canceling and suspending orders,
  • for resuming orders after suspension or failed execution,
  • for modifying order variables,
  • for modifying the start times of orders in the PENDING and SCHEDULED states.
• Clicking the Order ID updates the Order History in the lower part of the window.

Orders Overview: Card View

The Card View is indicated by the Image Added selector icon in the right upper corner of the window like this:

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Explanation:

• The view is suitable if bulk operations are to be performed on a smaller number of orders.
• The view allows selection of individual orders.
• Similar to the Tabular View, this view provides a number of filters for dates and order states.

Orders Overview: Bulk View

The Bulk View is indicated by the Image Added selector icon in the right upper corner of the window like this:

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Explanation:

• The view is suitable if operations are to be performed on a larger number of orders.
• The view allows to selection of orders per folder:
  • The tree displayed in the left-hand panel provides a hierarchical view for the selection of folders: 
    • Moving the mouse over a folder name displays the Image Added(expand) and Image Added (collapse) chevron icons like this:
      
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    • The Image Addedchevron icon will select all orders of the currently selected folder and any sub-folders.
    • The Image Added chevron icon will unselect a previous selection.
  • The number of orders per state in a selected folder hierarchy is displayed in the right-hand panel.
• The view allows the transition of order states:
  • The Allowed Transition column shows the transitions possible according to the order state.
• The view does not allow filtering for dates.

Bulk Operations on Orders

Bulk operations are explained from the Tabular View, they are similarly available from the Card View and Bulk View.Download (upload .json): 

Cancel Order

Orders in a PENDING, SCHEDULED, IN PROGRESS, RUNNING, SUSPENDED, PROMPTING, WAITING, BLOCKED andor FAILED state offer to cancel operation of the order, can be cancelled - for details see JS7 - Order State Transitions:

• Cancel: The operation allows the order to complete the current instruction, for example executing a job, and after completion of the instruction the order leaves the workflow with a failed history outcome.
• Cancel/Kill Taskforce: The operation kills processing of forcibly terminates the current instruction, for example a running task for a job, and makes the order leave the workflow.
  
  

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Suspend Order

Orders in a PENDING, SCHEDULED, IN PROGRESS, RUNNING, PROMPTING, WAITING ,or BLOCKED state offer the operation to suspend the ordercan be suspended:

• Suspend:  The The operation allows the order to complete the current instruction, for example executing a job, and after completion of the instruction the order is put set to the SUSPENDED state.
• Suspend/Kill Taskforce:  The operation kills processing of The operation forcibly terminates the current instruction, for example a running task, and puts sets the order in to the SUSPENDED state.
  
  

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Resume Order

FAILED and or SUSPENDED orders to resume operation from their action menuscan be resumed from the Orders Overview view like this:

• Resume: The order is orders are resumed from its their current position in the workflow or from some Resume Parameterized: The order is resumed similar to the Resume operation. In addition this operation allows to modify order parameters.
  

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If the Resume operation is used then the the tabular view of the work is displayed:

• Users can hit the Submit button to resume the order from its current position.
• Users can resume the order from a different position before or after the current position: clicking the order with the mouse and moving the order to the desired position makes the order resume from this position.
  • This operation is offered for top level instructions in a workflow.
  • This operation is denied for nested instructions, for example resuming an order from a position inside a JS7 - Fork-Join Instruction or JS7 - Lock Instruction is not allowed.
  • This operation is offered inside nested instructions, for example if an order in the branch of a Fork/Join Instruction is suspended then it can be freely resumed inside its branch.

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If the Resume Parameterized operation is used then in addition to the tabular view of the workflow

• The order can be resumed from a position in the workflow as explained above.
• In addition the list of order variables is displayed.
  • Users can modify values of order variables.
  • Users can use the Add Variable link to specify a variable that is not available from the order but has been declared with a default value from the workflow.

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Explanation:

• The bulk operation will resume orders from their current position.
• The bulk operation does not allow modification of an order's position and variables.

Further Resources

• JS7 - Order State Transitions
• JS7 - Workflows - Start Positions and End Positions of Orders
• JS7 - Workflows - Status Operations on Orders