BPELConsole Faulted Instance in 10.1.3.5

Recently we did upgrade of 10.1.3.5 and found that if you have faulted instance in BPELConsole, it doesn't show up the flow view. You can still see the details from Audit tab but flow tab shows following error (Javascript):

Line: 57
Char: 48
Error: 'this.wi.state' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URI: http://localhost:7777/BPELConsole/default/lib/flowviewer.js?gvpn0m

- First of all, faulted instances are the one which you want to look into BPELConsole first
- Audit tab is very busy, I believe flow view is graphical and very compact

Upon following up with Oracle, we found that it is expected behavior! (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14101_01/doc.1013/e15342/bpelrn.htm#BABCGIBB). Since when, the javascript error on the webpage become expected behavior??

Anyways, it was time back to get into dirty details of the JSP and Javascripts but I finally was able to fix the issue by just changing flowviewer.js file. Here are the steps, which should be applicable to any version:

1) open $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa/applications/orabpel/console/lib/flowviewr.js
2) You can use online beatifier as this JS is very compact, I used :
http://jsbeautifier.org/
3) Search for open.faulted, you should see something like

                } else {
                    if (this.wi.state == "4" || this.wi.state == "open.faulted") {
                        this.checkforESB(e);
                        this.templateId = "activity.faulted";
                        return
                    } else {
                        if (this.wi.state == "5" || this.wi.state == "6" || this.wi.state == "7" || this.wi.state == "8" || this.wi.state == "11" || this.wi.state == "12" || this.wi.state.substring(0, 6) == "closed") {
                            this.checkforESB(e);
                            this.templateId = "activity.closed";
                            return
                        } else {
                            this.checkforESB(e);
                            this.templateId = "activity.pending";
                            return
                        }
                    }
                }

4) Make changes as below:

                } else {
                    if (    (  this.wi.state == null &&   this.type == "4") ||    this.wi.state == "4" || this.wi.state == "open.faulted") {
                        this.checkforESB(e);
                        this.templateId = "activity.faulted";
                        return
                    } else {
                        if (   this.wi.state == null ||   this.wi.state == "5" || this.wi.state == "6" || this.wi.state == "7" || this.wi.state == "8" || this.wi.state == "11" || this.wi.state == "12" || this.wi.state.substring(0, 6) == "closed") {
                            this.checkforESB(e);
                            this.templateId = "activity.closed";
                            return
                        } else {
                            this.checkforESB(e);
                            this.templateId = "activity.pending";
                            return
                        }
                    }
                }

5) On IE or Firefox, just do ctrl+F5 to refresh your local copy of JS, and you should be able to see faulted instance just like before.


If you are using 10.1.3.5 or 10.1.3.5.2, you can just download flowviewer.js from here.