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Workflow Capture Process

The following outlines the process of capturing a workflow:
  1. In Visual Studio, specify a Workflow Capture server in your Service Interfaces Options. The default is localhost.
  2. Create a Visual Studio project using the Mainframe Subsystem Application template.
  3. Add a workflow item to the project.
  4. Set workflow properties.
  5. Start the workflow emulator.
  6. Start your application in the workflow emulator.
  7. Navigate the application to capture screens and transitions.
  8. Optionally edit workflow transitions.
  9. Optionally validate the workflow.

While capturing a workflow, you might want to run through the procedure several times, both successfully and deliberately unsuccessfully, to cover the different paths through the application. This ensures that all possible scenarios are addressed in the workflow and ultimately the service interface generated from it.

As you perform a workflow capture, screens that are accessed but not already listed on the project are brought into the project using the following naming convention:

HostScreennnnn

Where nnnn is a sequential number representing the order in which the screen was accessed during the workflow capture procedure. You cannot rename screens.

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