Process and Rules category — Events page

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The Events landing page lets you view, monitor, and edit business event definitions for all applications.

This page has two tabs.

• Event Definitions
• Event Logs

  Event Definitions tab

A business event definition comprises both the conditions and resulting actions of a business event. For example, the event condition could be whenever a work item in the Adjustments application becomes resolved with a status of Resolved-Writedown and the principal amount is more than $10,000. The related action could be that the system sends an email notification to a specific group of people.

This tab includes four buttons and a tabular display.

• Click Debug Log to display the Event Debug Report.

  To verify that an event definition responds to the correct stimulus with the specified action, use the Debug icon (see below) on any listed event definition to enable debugging. The Event Debug Report lists all event actions caught by the debugger, displaying information about the event definition and work item involved. Hover over the information icon at the left of any row to see further information about the work item.

• Click Export Event Definitions to create a Product rule that includes the event definitions you see in the display, and their activities and When rules. The Product rule is created in the EventProcessing-Internal RuleSet. Each user has a unique name for the event definition export Product rule: if you export a second time, the system overwrites any existing Product rule of the same name.

  Use the Export tab to export the Product rule from the EventProcessing-Internal RuleSet. You can then import it into another PRPC system.

• Click to review events reported by the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed to the Pega Event Actions Feed, or to an RSS feed reader you designate.

• Click the Refresh icon at the top right of the screen to redraw the tabular display with current data.

The tabular display lists these values for each event definition in the current application.

Create an Event Definition

You cannot create an Event Definition from the Events landing page. Composite portals, such as the Case Management Portal, include functionality for creating new Event Definitions.

Update an Event Definition

To review or update an event definition, click the Event Definition Name or Description to display the Update Event Definition form. Click the Edit button to switch to edit mode.

Debug an Event Definition

You may want to verify that the business event definition catches the correct event and initiates the correct action in response. To test the event definition, use the debugging features:

1. Select a work item to test with, and note its work item ID.
2. In the list of existing business event definitions, select a row, then click theicon in the Debug column to display the Debug form. Enter the work item ID in the Debug Info for Item field, and click Submit.
3. Perform an action on the work item that should be noticed by the event definition. For example, if the event definition is watching for a "create or update" event, advance the work item in its flow or update its data.
4. Click the Debug Log button to display the Event Debug Report.
5. If the event definition is correctly configured, and if the system performed an action on the selected work item that stimulates the event definition, an entry appears in this report.

For each row, the report displays the

• Event Definition ID
• Event Definition Name
• Event Object ID
• Work Item ID
• When the event was triggered
  

  Event Log tab

The Event Log tab records each occasion a business event responds to a change to a work item, or other stimulus, and generates an action. You can click any column heading to sort the display by the entries in that column.

For each recorded event, the log displays the following information:

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