Activities Widget

The Activities Widget provides detailed information about the executions that are currently running, and to which you have rights. The most recently started execution is displayed at the top. You can filter tasks that are displayed on the widget by expanding the SHOW drop-down list and selecting one of the available statuses. This topic describes the widget settings and what you can do with the tasks it displays.

Screenshot showing an example of an Activities widget

Configuring the Activities Widget

  1. Hover your mouse over the widget to enable its toolbar.

  2. Click the setting icon to open the Settings pane at the bottom half of the widget.

    The widget is expanded to occupy the entire dashboard and allow you to make your changes. When you are done, click the maximize/ minimize button on the widget toolbar.

  3. The Settings tab is displayed by default.

    1. The default Title of the widget is Activities. You can rename it here.

    2. In Show by Default, you select the status of the tasks that you want the widget to display by default. You can change this selection later on using the SHOW drop-down list at the top of the widget.

    3. In Refresh Frequency specify the interval at which the contents of the widget is automatically refreshed. Tasks finished already are removed from the list at the interval you indicate here.

  4. Open the Description tab to enter a widget description
  5. Click Save and close the pane.

Executing a Task

Right-click the task and select Execute.

If the object configuration requires you to enter values before executing it, the corresponding request is displayed in the Requests view. Enter the necessary data and click Submit. For more information, see Requests.

Accessing the Task Execution Data

The Executions list provides historical details on a particular activity and allows you to further process it, provided you have the necessary rights.

  1. Right-click a task and select Executions.

  2. The corresponding Executions list is displayed.

    Each row is an execution of the selected task. By default, the last one is displayed at the top

  3. If you want to further process an activity (cancel, suspend, restart, and so on), right-click on it to open a context menu with all the available functions.

    Which functions are displayed depends on your rights and on the status of the selected activity.

For more information, see Execution Data and Available Functions Depending on the Task Status.

Accessing the Task Last Report

Combined with the information available on the Executions list, the reports provide comprehensive information about the actions carried out on an object. They are created for all executable objects.

  1. Right-click a task and select Open
  2. The Report window is displayed.

More information:

Accessing the Task Monitor

The Process Monitoring perspective provides all your monitoring requirements, further process (cancel, suspend, restart, and so on) and modify tasks at runtime if you see that something is going wrong.

Whether you can process the task, or can modify it in the Monitor depends on the status of the task and on your rights.

  1. Right-click a task, and select Open Monitor
  2. The monitor window for the selected object is displayed

More information: