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Click on the Stop button to stop the debugging process. If you use Run, Step or Skip
after stopping the process, debugging starts over from the top.
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Use the Set Breakpoint button to tag the currently selected task, branch or condition as a
breakpoint. When you click Run in your process, the process will execute every task until
it reaches a breakpoint and will stop just before the task that is set as a breakpoint.
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Use the Ignore button to disable the task, branch or condition that is currently selected. If
you disable a branch or condition, all tasks inside that branch or condition are ignored
including the output. Note that if you set a task, branch or condition to be ignored, it will
also be ignored at run-time, providing you sent the configuration to the service.
Debugging and Emulation changes
One of the cases where debugging is most useful is whenever the job file is converted to
another type of emulation, or if a new data file of a different emulation is used somewhere in the
process. For example, if a process starts with a Line Printer data file and then converts it into a
PDF, it is not possible to select anything from the PDF to be used as (variable) task property,
because the Line Printer emulation is active by default. The debugging features can easily
resolve this limitation.
The first method is used if your process has all the required tasks, but data selections after an
emulation change are necessary.
l Step through the process until you have reached the point after the emulation or data
change.
l Make the necessary data selections (see "Data selections" on page52). Any data
selection used in task properties after this point will use the new emulation.
l Continue stepping through each task until the end of the process to debug it.
This method does not allow you to add, remove or move tasks, however.
The second method can be used when that is required.
l Step through the process in Debug mode until you reach the emulation or data change.
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Click on View as Text (or View as PDF if your data is PDF at this point) in the Data group
of the Debug tab.
l In the viewer that appears, save the file to a location on your hard drive.
l Stop the process, and select the file you saved as your process's sample data file (see
"Choosing a sample data file" on page69).
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