How to find all tasks that output to a specific field

When troubleshooting an error, it might be necessary to find a list of all tasks that output to a specific field.

What you’ll need:

An application in Swimlane with a field

The name of the field in Swimlane

Google Chrome

Access to MongoDB (or this link for how to access Mongo via CLI)

Follow the steps below:

Load the Application Builder page

Open Chrome Developer Tools

Select Network and find the Application ID from the URL of your current page:

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Select Response, copy the text , and paste it into a JSON document viewer.

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Search the document for the field name:

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Copy the ‘id’ field

Connect to MongoDB

Paste the field id into the following query and run it:

db.getCollection('Tasks').find({'Outputs.Mappings.Value': 'xxxxxx'}).pretty()

The following is an example of what’s returned:

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The important fields are:

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These can be used to track down the Tasks in Swimlane