ACTIVITIES_LIMIT Parameters

Systemwide variables that determine the number of tasks returned by the Automation Engine available for request and to be displayed on the task list.

COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT

  • Description: Defines the number of tasks (lines) to be displayed on the task list.

    The list displays records according to the specified filter settings, see Process Monitoring Perspective. If a search result returns more tasks than the value entered here, the system indicates it on the list, next to the value defined.

    Example

    If the COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT uses the default value and the search resulted in more than 500 tasks, the top left corner of the list shows Tasks (500+).

  • Default value: 500

  • Restart required: No

GENERIC_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT

  • Description: Defines the number of tasks returned by the Automation Engine that will be available for requests on the task list of the Process Monitoring perspective.

    In AWI, the number of activities is further restricted by COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT. If the value of GENERIC_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT is higher than the default value or the value defined in COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT, only part of the tasks available for requests on the task list will actually be displayed on the task list.

  • Allowed values: 0 to 20000

  • Default value: 5000

  • Restart required: No

Scenario for using the COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT parameters

Let's assume that you have set the following parameters:

  • GENERIC_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT is set to 5000
  • COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT is set to 1000.
  • There are 10000 active tasks, of which 2000 have ENDED_OK.
  • All Queues is selected in the Process Monitoring perspective. For details, see Process Monitoring Perspective.

Doing so has the following effects:

  • Filters that you define are applied on the AE side, which has an impact on the tasks that are retrieved from the AE server:
    • A maximum of 5000/1000 tasks is displayed if you do not apply any filter.
    • The AE returns the maximum number of GENERIC_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT entries with the status OK if you apply the filter Status=OK. If 2000 tasks have the status ENDED_OK, the filters are defined to show only tasks with the status ENDED_OK. As COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT is set to 1000, the AWI will only display half of the 2000 tasks that match the filter for performance reasons, memory consumptions of the AWI, the amount of data transferred from the AE to the AWI, etc. The following information displays:

      • Only 1000 entries (including child tasks) displayed due to restrictions in UC_SYSTEM_SETTING.

  • COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT is cached by the AWI. Changes are taken into account immediately.
  • GENERIC_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT is cached by the AE. Changes are taken into account immediately.

See also:

UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS - Systemwide Settings