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Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

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Posted on by KaiHartmann1981 189

Hi,

I have a hard time figuring out how to properly trace things in Workflows. When I create a new WorkflowActivity through the Visual Studio Dynamics templates there are a few calls to tracingService.Trace(), but I don't know where I can actually see this information during Workflow execution time.

I tried to enable tracing by setting 'Enable loffing to plug-in trace log' under Settings\Administration\SystemSettings\Customization, and by setting parameters in the registry as described here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/907490/how-to-enable-tracing-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm

But I don't find any of the information traced by the tracingService, not under Settings\Plug-In Trace Log nor in the trace folder.

Does anybody know how to do this, and actually traced some information?

Kind regards,

Kai 

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  • Yash Trivedi CRM Profile Picture
    Yash Trivedi CRM 335 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    what,i should register in sandbox???beacuse i am getting same problem after, this I set the option 'Enable loffing to plug-in trace log' in 'Settings\Administration\SystemSettings\Customization' to 'All',

  • KaiHartmann1981 Profile Picture
    KaiHartmann1981 189 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Oh, it's not working outside of 'sandbox' mode? That might be it, since we use 'none'.

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    ntn32 Profile Picture
    ntn32 401 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    And register it in sandbox mode.

  • KaiHartmann1981 Profile Picture
    KaiHartmann1981 189 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Then I seem to be missing something. I set the option 'Enable loffing to plug-in trace log' in 'Settings\Administration\SystemSettings\Customization' to 'All', and have several Trace-calls in my workflow. Is there anything else I have to do?

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    ntn32 Profile Picture
    ntn32 401 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Tracing workflow means, if you have any custom workflow registered and in that if any trace logs is written, then those message will be shown in "Plug-in trace logs".

  • KaiHartmann1981 Profile Picture
    KaiHartmann1981 189 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Even for tracing workflows? I cannot get it to work.

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    ntn32 Profile Picture
    ntn32 401 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Hi, 

    There are two ways to see trace logs of plugin or workflow activity,

    1. Navigate to Solutions -> Plug-in Trace Log.

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    2. Go to Advance Find and select "Plug-in Trace Logs"

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  • KaiHartmann1981 Profile Picture
    KaiHartmann1981 189 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Thanks for the replies.

    Where do I see what is logged to the TraceLog Entity? Is there a view or something?

    The tracingService I talked about is actually created like this already:

    ITracingService tracingService = executionContext.GetExtension<ITracingService>();


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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    I think you will have to add tracing in the code as well.

    ITracingService tracer = executionContext.GetExtension<ITracingService>();

    tracer.Trace("Tracing Comment goes here");

    You can trace at multiple points in your workflow activity and add useful information.

  • David Jennaway Profile Picture
    David Jennaway 14,063 on at
    RE: Tracing in Workflows (Workflow Activities)

    Data passed to tracingService.Trace should be written to the TraceLog entity. However, be aware that there's a bulk deletion job that runs every day to delete data from this that is more than a day old

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