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• send an administrator a notification when an error occurs in a process

• provide information to the administrator about the error

• allow the administrator to abort the process, retry the errored activity, or resolve the problem that caused the error to occur

Although you cannot edit the Default Error Process, the process is flexible enough for you to customize its behavior. You can define two item type attributes called WF_ADMINISTRATOR and ERROR_TIMEOUT in your item type that calls the Default Error Process to control the error processing that is performed.

• WF_ADMINISTRATOR - Specify the role to which Oracle Workflow sends the error notification. The default is the SYSADMIN role.

• ERROR_TIMEOUT - Specify whether the error notification times out.

'Initialize Error' Function Activity

By checking for an item attribute called WF_ADMINISTRATOR in your errored process's item type, the Initialize Error activity lets you specify who you want a notification to be sent to in the case of an error in your specific process without modifying the error process.

'Notify Administrator' Notification Activity

• Abort the process--executes the Error Still Active activity to verify if the error is still present and if it is, calls the Abort function activity and ends the default error process.

• Retry the process--executes the Error Still Active activity to verify if the error is still present and if it is, calls the Retry function activity and ends the default error process.

• Resolved the process--ends the default error process because you addressed the errored process directly through some external means or using the embedded URL link to the Workflow Monitor.

Note: The notification message's embedded monitor URL displays the process in error in the Workflow Monitor with full administrator privileges. You can perform actions such as retrying, skipping or rolling back part of your process to resolve the error.

The subject and body of the Default Retry Error message are as follows:

Subject: Error in Workflow &ERROR_ITEM_TYPE/&ERROR_ITEM_KEY 

	&ERROR_MESSAGE

Body: An Error occurred in the following Workflow.

	

	Item Type = &ERROR_ITEM_TYPE

	Item Key = &ERROR_ITEM_KEY

	User Key =&ERROR_USER_KEY

	

	Error Name = &ERROR_NAME

	Error Message = &ERROR_MESSAGE

	Error Stack = &ERROR_STACK

	

	Activity Id = &ERROR_ACTIVITY_ID

	Activity Label = &ERROR_ACTIVITY_LABEL

	Result Code = &ERROR_RESULT_CODE

	Notification Id = &ERROR_NOTIFICATION_ID

	Assigned User = &ERROR_ASSIGNED_USER

	

	&MONITOR

The Notify Administrator notification activity has a dynamic timeout value assigned to it. It checks the item type of the errored process for an item type attribute whose internal name is ERROR_TIMEOUT. ERROR_TIMEOUT must be an attribute of type NUMBER. The Workflow Engine interprets the value of this attribute as a relative offset from the begin date of the activity, in the unit of MINUTES to determine the timeout value of Notify Administrator. If ERROR_TIMEOUT contains a null value, a value of zero, or is not defined at all, then Notify Administrator has no timeout.

'Error Still Active' Function Activity

The Error Still Active activity calls a PL/SQL procedure called WF_STANDARD.CHECKERRORACTIVE. The purpose of the Error Still Active activity is to determine whether the errored process is still in error before continuing with the error handling. If it is, Error Still Active returns TRUE and the Workflow Engine takes the appropriate transition to either send another notification or abort or retry the errored process. If the errored process is no longer in error, this activity returns False and the error handling process ends, as modelled in the process diagram.

'Retry' Function Activity

'Abort' Function Activity

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