An indexed property is a variable property that serves as a selection filter for active processes. It can also be used in defining events for business event processing. This property holds a piece of data, such as a customer Id, application date, or amount. Using an indexed property in an event service allows for fine-grained analysis of business events as they are monitored by the Event Manager. Using an indexed property in a selection query provides a fast way to filter processes based on important data items.

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For example, you can retrieve a list of faulting processes that share the same indexed property, suspend processes, fix bad data values, and continue process execution.

Indexed properties are defined in the process deployment descriptor file. Information in this table is as follows: