Exception handling on ALL activities

Hi there,
I have a request for a new feature in ES Next:
It would be great to have exception handling (lightning bolt) on ALL services, including set values and decision activitíes. In this way you could easier catch errors with malformed xml and stuff like that.
Sincerely
Kim Christensen
Dafolo A/S

you can handle exceptions in workbench. When you select activities a small circle displays on that activity. Drag that small circle and set it to setValue.
so if exception will come that part will be executed and  you can assign an appropriate message(using setValue) to your output variable.
Message was edited by: aks@lc

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    10    when no_data_found then
    11      dbms_output.put_line('There is no employee with this employee number.');
    12* end;
    SQL> /
    Enter value for empno: 123
    old   7:   where  empno = &empno;
    new   7:   where  empno = 123;
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    PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
    3.ii) Raise the exception
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    b) we recognise the exception, wish to log it happened and then let the calling code deal with it
    c) we don't recognise the exception and we want the calling code to deal with it
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    Wrote file afiedt.buf
      1  declare
      2    v_name VARCHAR2(20);
      3    v_empno NUMBER := &empno;
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      5    select ename
      6    into   v_name
      7    from   emp
      8    where  empno = v_empno;
      9    dbms_output.put_line(v_name);
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    12      INSERT INTO sql_errors (txt)
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    14      COMMIT;
    15      RAISE;
    16* end;
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    Procedure A's Exception Section
    Procedure B's Exception Section
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    Procedure B's Statement Section
    Nested Block Declaration Section
    Nested Block Statement Section
    No employee was found
    Nested Block Exception Section - Exception Handled
    Procedure B's Statement Section Continued
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      5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
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    28      END IF;
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      1  create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
      2    cursor cur_stock_reorder is
      3      select s.stock_level
      4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
      5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
      6      from stock s join reorder_level r on (s.item_id = r.item_id)
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      1  create or replace procedure re_order(p_item_id NUMBER, p_quantity NUMBER) is
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      4            ,r.stock_level as reorder_level
      5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
      6            ,(((r.stock_level*4)-s.stock_level)/p_quantity) as finance_factor
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    14    exc_too_much      EXCEPTION;
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    17    FETCH cur_stock_reorder INTO v_stock;
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    19      RAISE no_data_found;
    20    END IF;
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      6            ,(((r.stock_level*4)-s.stock_level)/p_quantity) as finance_factor
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    47    WHEN exc_too_much THEN
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      5            ,(r.stock_level*4) as reorder_limit
      6            ,(((r.stock_level*4)-s.stock_level)/p_quantity) as finance_factor
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    19    END IF;
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