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Building and Configuring Workflows
Debug Workflows
Debugging
The debugging function allows you to locate and isolate an error in your workflow in order to fix it before the workflow is used in a production environment.
Workflow Debug View
You can view a workflow and the value of its variables during a debugging session.
Add and remove breakpoints

Workflow Products Documentation

Building and Configuring Workflows
- Workflow Design Basics
- Workflow Foundations
- Task Management for Administrators
- Task Configuration
- Task Step Configuration
- Global Subprocesses
- Basic Activities
- Schedules
- Faults
- Test Workflows
- Debug Workflows
  - Debugging
    The debugging function allows you to locate and isolate an error in your workflow in order to fix it before the workflow is used in a production environment.
    - Breakpoints
      Breakpoints allow you to intentionally pause a workflow when it reaches a specific location, such as a process step or activity. The workflow automatically pauses whenever a breakpoint is reached if the workflow debugger is attached.
    - Workflow Debug View
      You can view a workflow and the value of its variables during a debugging session.
      - Testing and Debugging Commands
        When you attach a debugger to a running workflow, you can perform debugging operations, as well as start and stop a test workflow.
      - Pause and resume a workflow in a debugging session
      - Add and remove breakpoints
      - Step through a workflow
      - View the current values for an activity's properties
      - View a workflow instance
    - Start and end a test debugging session
      You can troubleshoot problems that may be occurring in a workflow by tracking the flow of logic in a workflow.
    - Start a debugging session for a workflow instance
    - Kill a debugging session
- Track Data
- Web Services Service Provider
- Legacy Workflow Web Service
- Categories
- Completion Codes
- Actuals
- REST APIs

Add and remove breakpoints

Before you begin

You can set breakpoints when the debugger toolbar is attached. Breakpoints are indicated by a red dot.

Procedure

Start a debugging session. See Start and end a test debugging session.

Note: To start a debugging session for a running workflow, see View a workflow instance.
On the Workflow Editor tab, select a step within the workflow, and then click Add a Breakpoint.
To remove a single breakpoint, select the step with the breakpoint you want to remove, and then click Remove a Breakpoint.
To remove all breakpoints, click Remove all Breakpoints.