How to Configure the Terminate Shape

Terminate shape

The Terminate shape is used to end an orchestration instance. You can specify a message string to accompany the shape when viewed in the output from the Group Hub page.

Caution

If you place a Terminate shape inside a Parallel Actions shape, and the branch with the Terminate on it is run, the instance completes immediately, regardless of whether other branches have finished running. Depending on your design, results might be unpredictable in this case.

Caution

If a Terminate shape is encountered in an orchestration that has been called synchronously (as with the Call shape) by another orchestration, the nested instance and all enclosing orchestration instances will be terminated.

To configure a Terminate shape

• You can use the Error Message property to specify text that you want to associate with the shape when viewed in the query output on the Group Hub page. This text may be a literal string, or an expression that evaluates to a System.String.

  Caution

  If you enter a literal string, you must enclose it in quotation marks.