Access to step sequence number while executing an activity
We are running all of our activities in a back-end mode with no UI.
We are using steps to set a text property on one of our pages with logging info on our process for trouble shooting.
When we do so, we would like to include the step number that we are at when executing the activity.
Is there a property in the clipboard that would contain this information ?
Thank you!
Pegasystems Inc.
FR
Hello,
I don't think you will have that on the clipboard. Why don't you just add it on your Property-Set with custom property?
Intact Financial Corporation
CA
Thanks Marc, this is something we are already doing in some cases.
But we have a particular case where the activity has many steps, I won't tell you how many, we are a little ashamed of it ;-).
So, when we make a change, there may be a lot property-set to change to make the step number adjustment.
That is why I was asking the question to see if we could make it a little more dynamic.
I'll look into passing some kind of param to a data-transform to know at which step we are when updating the text property.
Thanks again !
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
If you want to this information for debugging purpose then you can enable logger to info for the activity, this will write every step the activity go through in the logs.
-Saikat
Intact Financial Corporation
CA
Thanks Saikat, this most probably means that it would be possible to write a Java step in an activity that would be able to access the step number and put it in a local variable to use it. I'll be searching in the Pega code for places where this logging happens to reuse the same bit of code. If I can find this code, your comment will have been very useful ! Would you happen to know where I could find this ? Thanks in advance!
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
The java code already there for all the activity, you just need to set the logger to info/debug for the activity that you want to track.
this is how you set the logger:
To get the logger string check the generated java for the activity, it should be something like Rule_Obj_Activity.Activityname.classname.action.
-Saikat