Tutorial - Aborting a Process Launched by a Task

You can use an Abort Actions to instruct Universal Controller to abort a process under certain conditions. For example, you may want to abort a task if it is running too long.

In this tutorial, we will set a Timer task to run for 60 seconds and specify an Abort Action when the task runs 45 seconds.

Step 1	Open the Timer1 task created in the Creating a Simple Workflow tutorial and enter / select the following values:
Step 2	Click the Actions tab to display the Actions list.
Step 3	Click Abort Action to display the Abort Action list.
Step 4	Click New to display Abort Action Details for a new Abort action, enable On Late Finish, and click Save.
Step 5	Click the Timer Task tab and then click the Update button.
Step 6	Right-click Timer1 in the Timers Tasks list and click Launch Task.
Step 7	Navigate to the Activity Monitor and verify that after running for 45 seconds, the task instance status changes from Running to Finished.
Step 8	Open the task instance Details and note the status description indicates:

For additional information, see:

Setting Up Abort Actions