Handling exceptions

An exception represents an error situation that, if not handled explicitly within the activity diagram, can stop execution of the collaboration. The goal of exception handling is to ensure the following:

Therefore, it is important to understand how exceptions are handled, both by your collaboration template and by the collaboration runtime environment. This section provides the following information about handling exceptions:

Important

This chapter contains some information about using the SEND_EMAIL property to handle exceptions. This property is available only in the CollaborationFoundation template, which is not currently shipped as part of Process Designer Express.

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