there was an application called 'WorkflowMonitor' that was included with the samples kit for workflow 3 which gave you a visual playback through previously run workflows.
The tracking records that app works against appear to be a different shape to those in workflow 4, is there a similar viewer that anyone knows of that can give me an insight into previously run workflows in workflow 4?
I am really just looking for the best way to interpret the data, the Workflow Monitor would have been perfect, but appears to be incompatible now.
Thanks,
Dave.
I know near to nothing about WF3 but, based on your request, you might want to start by downloading this WCF/WF Examples package.
Take a look at WF\Application\VisualWorkflowTracking solution to see a visual tracking system in action.
See also the concept of Workflow Tracking Participants on WF4, on these links:
- Workflow Tracking and Tracing
- Tracking Participants in .NET 4 Beta 1
A small introduction from the first link:
Windows Workflow tracking is a .NET Framework version 4 feature
designed to provide visibility into workflow execution. It provides a
tracking infrastructure to track the execution of a workflow instance.
The WF tracking infrastructure transparently instruments a workflow to
emit records reflecting key events during the execution. This
functionality is available by default for any .NET Framework 4
workflow.
The examples package contains a bunch of example code about tracking on WF_WCF_Samples\WF\Basic\Tracking folder.
@Jota's answer is a good one, you should look at those examples. The visual tracking example is kind of a mess though. A few of us of done some different variations that separate the running of the workflow from the viewing of the tracking data.
http://geekswithblogs.net/JoshReuben/archive/2011/06/07/workflow-4.0.1-statemachine—distributed-tracking-visualization.aspx
https://github.com/PeteGoo/Workflow-Service-Tracking-Viewer
and my own version with signalR but based on the visual tracking sample
http://panmanphil.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/slides-and-sample-from-the-chippewa-valley-code-camp/
Looks like you have some reading on your hands.
