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The Workflow Monitor has two modes. Each mode, which you select by clicking the appropriate icon in the Workflow Monitor toolbar, allows you to use one or more specific Workflow Monitor tools.
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| Clicking the Monitoring Workflows#Select Select icon on the Workflow Monitor toolbar places the Workflow Editor in Select mode, which allows you to use all Workflow Monitor tools except Monitoring Workflows#Connect Connect and Monitoring Workflows#Pan Pan. The Select mode is the default mode for the Workflow Monitor. | |||||||||||
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| Clicking the Monitoring Workflows#Pan Pan icon on the Workflow Monitor toolbar places the Workflow Monitor in Pan mode, which allows you to scroll around in the Workflow. (You also can use the Monitoring Workflows#Outline Outline tool in any mode) to scroll around in the Workflow.
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  | View Parent | If this Workflow is embedded in another Workflow, navigates to the parent. If this Workflow has more than one parent, clicking this icon displays a list of all parent Workflows; in this case, to navigate to a parent Workflow, double-click the Workflow's icon. To return to your original Workflow, click its name. (The current Workflow name displays in the lower right corner of the editor.)
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  | Prints the current Workflow. | ||||||||||||
  | Select | Places the Workflow Monitor in Monitoring Workflows#Select Select mode. | |||||||||||
  | Pan | Places the Workflow Monitor in Monitoring Workflows#Pan Pan mode. | |||||||||||
  | Undo | Click to undo the most recent change. | |||||||||||
  | Redo | Click to redo the most recent change that you undid by clicking Monitoring Workflows#Undo Undo. | |||||||||||
  | Fit | Fits the Workflow into the display. If necessary, this shrinks the icons and size of the Workflow in order to make it fit. You can undo a Monitoring Workflows#Fit Fit by clicking the Monitoring Workflows#Actual Actual Size icon. | |||||||||||
  | Zoom In | Zooms in (enlarges) the Workflow. To return the Workflow to its default size, click the Monitoring Workflows#Actual Actual Size icon. | |||||||||||
  | Zoom Out | Zooms out (diminishes) the Workflow. To return the Workflow to its default size, click the Monitoring Workflows#Actual Actual Size icon. | |||||||||||
  | Actual Size | Returns the Workflow to its default size after a Monitoring Workflows#Fit Fit or Monitoring Workflows#Zoom Zoom. | |||||||||||
  | Zoom | Opens a window that allows you to specify a zoom ratio. For example, to double the size of the Workflow, enter 200 and click OK. To return the Workflow to its default size, click the Monitoring Workflows#Actual Actual Size icon. | |||||||||||
  | Horizontal Layout | Reformats the Workflow into a horizontal layout. | |||||||||||
  | Vertical Layout | Reformats the Workflow into a vertical layout. | |||||||||||
  | Toggle Vertex Style | For running Workflows, switches the icon display between status-related icons and task-related icons (see Monitoring Workflows#Workflow Workflow Monitor Display Mode). This icon only appears on the icon bar when you are monitoring a running Workflow. | |||||||||||
 | Toggle Critical Path View | Toggles between the normal view of the Workflow and the Critical Path View.
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  | Outline | For large Workflows, the outline provides a way of positioning a specific area of the Workflow in the display, without using the Monitoring Workflows#Pan Pan mode.
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  | Help | Displays help documentation for Workflows. | |||||||||||
  | Console | While a Workflow is running, you can click the Console icon to display processing messages. |
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You can change the Workflow Monitor so that the icon above each task instance name represents the current status of that task instance (see Monitoring Workflows#Displaying Displaying Task Status Icons). |
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- In Configuration > Properties, set the Critical Path Calculations Permitted system property to true.
- In the Workflow Details, enable the Calculate Critical Path field.
- In the Workflow Monitor toolbar, click the Monitoring Workflows#Toggle Toggle Critical Path View icon.
By default, any Workflow with the Calculate Critical Path field enabled will be displayed in the Workflow Monitor in Critical Path View. To toggle in and out of Critical Path View, click the Monitoring Workflows#Toggle Toggle Critical Path View icon.
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If you are using View In Workflow to open the Workflow Monitor, or the Workflow being opened has a status of Skipped, Critical Path View will be toggled off by default. |
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If you are in Critical Path View, but you want to see Skipped task instances, you can restore the standard view by clicking the Monitoring Workflows#Toggle Toggle Critical Path View icon in the Workflow Monitor toolbar.
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