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Designing the Process
Attachments pass from the child process instance to the parent process instance by mapping them to
the HTTP Request attachments.
This approach was based on HTTP Post. An alternate approach is to use JMS as the protocol for
inter-process communications. This approach is useful when the child process must pass data to the
parent process.
Using the process debugger
Process Builder’s debugger enables you to test the design of a process template interactively by setting
breakpoints, running through the process, examining and modifying process data, testing integrations,
and acquiring and acting upon tasks within a process.
Debugging a process before deploying it to a production environment helps to ensure that the process
flow you designed satisfies the original business requirements upon which you based your design.
Using the debugger to troubleshoot a process enables you to test a process from within the process
design environment without having to save, validate, or install the process. You can also test activities
as you develop them to ensure that you have configured a complex process flow correctly. Executing a
particular path within a flow can also give you important feedback during the development process.
You can use the debugger to walk through the invocation of a web service. You can visually inspect
the outgoing message, the returned response from the web service, the document metadata and process
variable values. Errors display immediately in the debugger console. Make sure to place a breakpoint
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