Was working on adding some details to this simulation. When i used the dropper to select a queue in the model the simulation threw up an error and closed. When i reopened the simulation the process flow that i was working on renamed itself viewfocus, the sim will not run and the process flow isnt available in the process flow tab in the banner.
It looks like the Process Flow got corrupted and was lost. If you look at this screenshot from your model's tree, the Process Flow object is missing from the Tools/ProcessFlow folder and the Tools/Toolbox/ProcessFlow folder.
What edits were you making that caused this error to occur? Do you have a previous version I could see to try to replicate your steps?
Here's a post on corruption mitigation for future reference.
Hi @Kavika F , one of our customers encountered the same issue today. I am not sure how exactly this happened, but I found one way to replicate the issue:
The ProcessFlow tab is now renamed viewfocus and the view is grey:
If you look at the original model, this issue is actually not a software bug but a mistake in the Unload activity:
Here current (= the current ProcessFlow) is unloaded into an item. This does not throw any error, but when the model is reset it destroys the item + the Process Flow that was inside the item.
In the example above, it is obviously an error to set current for the Item parameter. However this obvious error is one of the available options in the picklist:
Do you think that it is misleading to suggest the current variable in a General Process Flow, since there is no instance object, but current is instead a reference to the Process Flow itself ?
@Clair A, the parentheses next to current stating (Instance Object) is an implication that it should be used with an Instanced Process Flow. However, I think it may be safer to remove it from that list. I'll bring this up to the dev team.
@Jason Lightfoot, I couldn't find a ticket so I'll make another one. If the first one reappears then we can link them together.
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