Setting breakpoints in the Tracer tool
You can set breakpoints to pause processing for specific steps in activities. When you set a breakpoint for an activity, the Tracer window acquires focus when you or the selected requestor connection starts the activity.
For example, if a step in an activity triggers a data transform, you can set a breakpoint before the step so that you can analyze and understand how the system updates the values in the data transform.- In the footer of App Studio, click the Open runtime toolbar icon, and then click the Tracer icon.
- On the Tracer toolbar, click Breakpoints.
- In the Class Name field, select the Applies To class that stores an activity to trace.
- In the Activity Name field, select an activity.
- In the Where to Break list, select one of the following
options:
- To stop processing when the activity starts, select 1.
- To stop processing before a specific step, select the step number.
- To stop processing before every step, select all steps.
- Click Set Break.
- Optional: To add more breakpoints, repeat steps 3 through 6.
- Optional: To remove a breakpoint, in the Remove column, select the check box, and then click Remove.
- Click Close.
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