Reviewing Errors and Warnings

You can use the error and warning detection features in SAS Visual Process Orchestration to discover errors and warnings in orchestration jobs. For example, you can review the warnings and errors displayed for a Data Management Service node in a sample orchestration job.

The following display shows a warning badge attached to a node in an unsubmitted job:

Warning Badge

The warning badge alerts you to potential problems so that you can address them before you run the job, as shown in the following display:

Warning Text

The errors badge is generated after the orchestration job is run, as shown in the following display:

Errors Badge

The following display shows the message that is displayed when you click the error badge on the Expression node:

Errors Text

This particular message alerts you to a file not found error.

You can click the Status button in the toolbar to see this node flagged in the status table, as shown in the following display:

Status Tab

Then you can click Details to see the same error message in the Details window, as shown in the following display:

You can click the Outputs tab to see an error message reported in the outputs of the node, as shown in the following display:

Outputs Tab in the Details Window

Note that you can specify how nodes handle errors in the Settings tab for an orchestration job or a node in a job. The Settings tab contains options that you can set for Node errors and Source binding failures.

The following settings are available for Node errors:

Use the job settings
Abort the job run
Continue running the job
Only abort the flow that had the error

The following settings are available for Source binding failures:

Use the job settings
Signal a node error
Use the node’s default input value