Resuming failed workflows

This recipe looks at the ability to resume a failed workflow. It allows you to resume a workflow when an error has occurred.

Getting ready

We just need a working Orchestrator, and you will need the rights to create new workflows and run them. We will work with the Orchestrator Client.

To make it easier, we reuse the workflow we will create in the Error handling in workflows recipe in Chapter 5, Visual Programming ( the 05.03.01 Error Handling example workflow). If you don't have it, please create it as described or use the example package that is supplied with this book.

How to do it...

The following steps showcase the functionality:

  1. Create a new workflow.
  2. Drag Workflow element onto the schema and select the workflow we created ...

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