Running, Testing, and Debugging Processes › Debug a Process › Suspend a Process

Suspend a Process

When a process is in the suspended state, you can do any of the following:

• Change whether a process is unloaded after completion
• Reset the process
• Reset operators in a process
• Add or remove breakpoints
• Modify the process
• Click the Resume Process button to continue processing
• Abort the process

Modifying a process in a suspended state lets you work on an unanticipated issue, and then resume automated execution while still tracking any changes that you have made. Switch to a Process Watch to export a modified instance of a process and permanently save any changes made at runtime.

To suspend execution of an instance of a process while working in debug mode, click the Suspend Process button on the toolbar of the Process Designer.

The execution of the process instance stops. No further dependencies are examined until you resume execution of the process. You can edit a process in a suspended state. Any modifications to operator parameters or other elements of the process affect only that instance of the process.

To restart execution in a suspended instance of a process, click the Resume Process button. The Resume Process button restarts a suspended process from where it stopped executing unless it is reset. If an instance of a suspended process is reset, execution restarts from the beginning of the process.