You can suspend the execution of a process instance. This can be useful, for example, if a server outage would cause the process execution to fail.
Procedure
The execution of the process instance is suspended. It has the status Suspended. It can be resumed again later. Unlike the Suspend recurrence function, it is not the creation of recurrences that is suspended for the entire process, but only the execution of this process instance.
Example
The Save data process is started at midnight each night. The process comprises the two steps Copy data and Archive data.
If Suspend recurrence is selected, the process will no longer be started as of the next night and will not not resume until
Resume recurrence is selected. However, all running process instances are completed.
If Suspend is selected at night for a running process instance that has just finished copying data, this specific process instance is suspended, in other words, the data will no longer be archived. Process execution stops at this point. The next night, however, a new instance of the process is started, and the data is backed up and archived. The suspended process instance will not continue to run until
Resume is selected.