Start and monitor your composition start-monitor
Once that you have created your composition and designed the tasks to perform in the canvas, you can launch it and monitor how it is being executed.
Start the composition start
To start a composition, click the Start button in the upper-right corner of the screen. When the composition is running, each activity in the canvas is executed in a sequential order, until the end of the composition is reached.
You can track the progress of targeted profiles in real-time using a visual flow. This allows you to quickly identify the status of each activity and the number of profiles transitioning between them.
Composition transitions transitions
In compositions, data transported from one activity to another through transitions is stored in a temporary work table. This data can be displayed for each transition. To do this, select a transition to open its properties in the right hand side of the screen.
- Click Preview schema to display the schema of the work table.
- Click Preview results to visualize the data transported in the selected transition. This option is available only if the Keep the result of interim populations between two executions option is enabled. Learn more.
Monitor activity execution activities
Visual indicators in the upper-right corner of each activity box allows you to check their execution:
Monitor logs and tasks logs-tasks
Monitoring compositions logs and tasks is a key step to analyze your compositions and make sure they are running properly. They are accessible from the Logs button which is available in the action tool bar and in each activity鈥檚 properties pane.
The Composition logs and tasks screen provides an history of the composition execution, recording all user actions and encountered errors.
The history is organized into several tabs, detailed below:
- The Log tab contains the execution history of all the composition activities. It indexes the operations carried out and execution errors by chronological order.
- The Tasks tab details the execution sequencing of the activities. The button located at the end of each task allows you to list the event variables passed through the activity.
- The Variables tab lists all variables passed in the composition. It is available when accessing the logs and tasks from the composition canvas only. It is now available when accessing the logs from an activity鈥檚 properties pane.
In all tabs, you can choose the displayed columns and their order, apply filters, and use the search field to quickly find the desired information.
Composition execution commands execution-commands
The action bar in the upper-right corner provides commands that allow you to manage the composition execution.
Available actions are:
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Start: Starts the execution of the composition, which then takes on the In progress status. The composition is started and the initial activities are activated.
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Resume: Resumes the execution of the composition that had been paused. The composition takes on the In progress status.
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Pause the execution of the composition, which then takes on the Paused status. No new activities will be activated until it is resumed, but operations in progress are not suspended.
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Stop a composition that is being executed, which will then take on the Finished status. The operations in progress are interrupted if possible. You cannot resume from the composition from the same place that it was stopped.
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Restart: Stops then restart a composition. In most cases, this allows you to restart quicker, as stopping takes a certain amount of time, and the Start button is only available when the stop is effective.