When you do a production run of a flowchart, the data that it generates is saved in
system tables. After you run and save the flowchart, you can view the results of the run in reports.
About this task
Do a production run after you save, validate, and do a test run. A production run writes to
the history tables. The contact processes, such as Mail list and Call list, write entries into
Contact History. Each production run can generate contact history only once. Contact processes that
already ran for that production run can be rerun only if the contact history from the current run is
first deleted. To generate multiple contacts from the same list of IDs, snapshot the list of IDs and
read from the list for each flowchart run.
Triggers run on completion of a production
run.
After initiating a run, users with Administrative privileges can access the
Monitoring page, which displays all running flowcharts and their status.
Procedure
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Save the flowchart before you run it.
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If any approval exists for a flowchart , the approval must be in the completed or canceled state otherwise the flowchart will not run.
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If you are viewing a flowchart, open the Run menu and select Run.
If you are editing a flowchart, open the Run menu and select Save and run flowchart.
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To run a process or branch, right-click a process, open the Run menu
and select Save and run selected process or Save and run
selected branch.
Note: Running only a process or a branch of a flowchart does not increment the Run ID of a
flowchart. When you run only a process or a branch, if contact history records exist, you are
prompted to choose run history options before you can proceed. The Run history
options dialog appears only when you run a branch or process that previously generated
contact history for the current Run ID. You can either append information to contact history or
replace existing contact history for the Run ID.
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To run the entire flowchart, open the Run menu in the toolbar and select Save and run flowchart.
If the flowchart has already run, you are asked to confirm the run.
The process, branch, or flowchart runs in production mode. Data from the run is saved to the
appropriate system tables. Each process that runs successfully displays a green check mark. If there
are errors, the process displays a red "X".
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If you want to pause or stop the run, right-click a process box, open the
Run menu and select Pause or
Stop.
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Use one of the Save options in the toolbar. If you click Save
and exit before the flowchart finishes the run, the flowchart continues to run and is
saved when it finishes. If anyone reopens the flowchart while it is still running, any changes made
to the flowchart are lost.
You must save the flowchart after it runs to view the results of the run in any reports. After
you save the flowchart, results of repeated runs are immediately available.
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To determine if there were any errors in the run, click the Analysis tab
and view the Unica Campaign flowchart
status summary report.