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Adding Indexed Properties

Add indexed properties for use in quickly finding certain processes running on the server.

An indexed property is a process variable property that is populated with the variable (or variable part) value during process execution. If you add indexed properties to the PDD, on the Process Console, you can select indexed properties as a search filter for process instances.

Also you can use indexed properties to define a business process event. For details, see Business Event Processing.

For example, you can find all faulting processes where the customerId is 101. In this example, the indexed property name is

customerId

and is based on a process variable of type string. "101" is the data value at the time the process is suspended.

Indexed properties allow for fast searching of important data items at runtime.

Add indexed property details as follows:

Name	Indexed property name. This name appears in the Indexed Property list in the Process Console.
Type	Select the property type from: boolean, date, double, string. Match the type to the variable, part or query value
Variable Path	Full process variable path. Select from the picklist, or select the Dialog button to open the Find a BPEL Variable dialog. If you have a long list of variables, the dialog is more convenient.
Part	Process variable part for message type variables
Query	Process variable part detail (optional)