Activating a data flow

  1. Select Connect > Data flows.
    A list of existing data flows is displayed.
  2. Activate one data flow from the tile toolbar or enable the multi-select mode and select several data flows.
  3. Click Activate.

    Alternatively, click the data flow tile to open the modeler. Activate the model by clicking Activate in the modeler button bar.

    Inactive flows can be activated, but also active flows can be reactivated.

    If a connection point is used in multiple data flows, you can select them together and activate them all at once. If a data flow uses a new application or message queue connection point, ION starts reading messages from the Outbox or JMS message queue from the moment a data flow is activated. If you first activate one data flow and later another data flow, ION can already have processed documents from the outbox or message queue that were relevant for the second data flow, before that second data flow was activated.

    Selecting a large number of data flows and activating them all at once, can cause a time-out error. In this case, reduce the selected data flows and try again. Group all data flows of a modified connection point together for the reasons explained earlier.

    During activating, errors or warnings can be reported. Normally, an activation error is reported if one or more errors exist in the messages pane of the data flow modeler.