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Use case: User is debugging a process instance. User would like to know what code path has been executed for this process. Today the only thing which is shown is the current activity. So user does not know at a glance what executed before the current activity. Proposal: Visually trace the flow of execution on the process diagram. Basic idea: When a particular process instance is being debugged, the diagram will show all visited activities in their normal rendering. Unvisited activities will be "greyed" out. This will allow the user to trace the process execution. This fucntionality will overlap somewhat with that which will be provided by the Process Execution View issue 81863. However, I believe both views are useful and complimentary. The Process Execution View is better capable of showing the history of looped structures. The Process diagram is better at showing the current code path relative to the overall process. Both views are helpful and desirable. This will require more detail and description in a functional specification.
Implemented in release551. Although, the icons and visual effects for activity states may change.
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