Workflow Activity Tracking

Question

We have a service running on AppFabric Server, using the following tracking profile. This tracking works for all activities except for one specific activity class, where variable values are not recorded. In the AppFabric dashboard, there are no values listed under the "Variables" tab for this particular activity.

 

   <trackingProfile name="TestService Activity Tracking" implementationVisibility="All">
	<workflow activityDefinitionId="*">
   		<workflowInstanceQueries>
                	<workflowInstanceQuery>
                        	 <states>
                                 	<state name="Started" />
                                        <state name="Completed" />
                                        <state name="UnhandledException" />
                                 </states>
			 </workflowInstanceQuery>
		</workflowInstanceQueries>
			<activityStateQueries>
				 <activityStateQuery activityName="*">
					 <states>
                                        	<state name="*" />
  					</states>
					 <arguments>
						<argument name="*" />
					 </arguments>
				</activityStateQuery>
			</activityStateQueries>
		</workflow>
	</trackingProfile>

 

At first glance, the activity itself does not appear to do much other than manipulate CodeActivityContext property values and output a string.

Suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Are you sure the activity is being executed? Is it possible instances are not executing this activity?

Thanks,

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Answer 2

Yes, the activity is being executed. We've added logging in the activity class that writes to the Windows Event log, and this works.