Process Developer > Part II: Creating and Modifying Processes > BPMN Tasks and Events > Suspend

Suspend

This is a Process Developer extension activity. When you save the process, a message appears informing you that the process contains an activity that is not in the BPEL specification.

The suspend activity suspends a running process. This activity is useful for catching unexpected faults to allow manual intervention for viewing and correcting errors. The optional variable attribute can be used to attach data to an alert which both automatic and programmatic suspends can trigger.

You can perform process exception management on a suspended process. Using the Process Console, you can conveniently view the location of a faulting activity.

Required Properties	Optional Properties
none	Name. See Selecting Activity Labels
	Variable
	Join Condition. See Creating a Join Condition for an Incoming Link
	Suppress Join Failure. See Process Element and Properties
	Comment. See Adding Comments to a Process
	Documentation. See Adding Documentation to a Process
	Setting Visual Properties and Using Your Own Library of Images
	Execution State. See Viewing the Execution State of an Activity or Link
	Extension Attributes and Extension Elements. See Declaring Extension Elements and Attributes.

To build a suspend activity:

1. Drag a Suspend task to the Process Editor canvas.

You can add a background color to the suspend task.

2. Add the activity to an appropriate container, such as a fault handler's catch or catchAll activity, or link another activity to it.

The following illustration shows an example of using the suspend activity.

XML Syntax

<suspend variable="NCName"? standard-attributes>
standard-elements
</suspend>

Example