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It is important for organizations to know exactly what happened to their business processes. All decisions that the process engine takes are stored in the Trace Database. This means that years later, a business can inspect why certain decisions were made within the process. 

The following actions result in an automatically created entry in the decision table of the trace database:

Action
Description
Task openedA new instance of an ad-hoc task is created. If available, the decision that was made to open this task, is logged.
Task closedAn instance of an ad-hoc task is closed when the precondition will turn into FALSE. If available, the decision that was made to close this task, is logged.
Split nodesA process has passed a split node and has taken one or more paths based on one or more decisions. The decision that was made, is logged.
Timer expiredWhen a timer event expires, the logic is stored as a decision. Both in sequence and ad-hoc.
Conditional event evaluates to TRUEWhen a conditional event evaluates to TRUE, the logic is stored as a decision. Both in sequence and ad-hoc.

For each time a decision is stored the values listed below is stored.

  • ID
  • Application ID
  • Action name
  • Task persistency ID
  • Task instance ID
  • Case name
  • Case instance ID
  • Decision graph

The decision graph is stored following the XSD specification for the Decision Model and Notation, as defined by the Object Management Group. This specification can be found here: http://www.omg.org/spec/DMN/1.0/Beta1/. OMG defines three levels of conformance. Blueriq follows conformance level 1. More details on how Blueriq uses the XSD schema can be found here: Creating an XML Decision Requirements Graph