Block step in BPM

Hi Experts,
I am facing a problem in BPM,
1) Receive the Message
2) Split the Message
3) Block starts
a) Synchronous send to RFC
b)Response from this is send to Send step
In this scenario, the Message is going upto "BLOCK" step, and from there it is not geting executed correctly. To my surprise in SXMB_MONI, the message going to BPM succesfully and no other message found from BPM to any system(either synchronous send / send).
Can you please help me in identifying the problem.
Regards,
Anudeep

Hi,
Problem is solved.
Multi mapping is not giving target element. It is solved when we chnaged the input payload format, from,
<ns1:Sender_SI xmlns:ns1="namespace">
<rows>
     <field1>
     <field2>
</rows>
</ns1:Sender_SI>
to
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:Sender_SI xmlns:ns1="namespace">
<rows>
     <field1>
     <field2>
</rows>
</ns0:Sender_SI>
By this change the Mapping worked and scenario is running succesfully.

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