Step Importance and Detail Levels¶
Every workflow step in Orchestrator Core carries an importance value: low, default or high. The backend
stores it on each process step and exposes it through the process APIs; the backend engine itself does nothing with
it. How a step author sets the importance is documented in the
Orchestrator Core workflow steps docs.
The orchestrator UI uses importance to decide how much of each step to show in the process detail page. This page describes that mapping. It requires Orchestrator Core 5.6 or newer; older backends do not support the process detail query, see the Frontend / Backend Compatibility guide.
Presentations¶
Each step is rendered in one of three presentations:
- Minimal: a single compact row with the status icon and the step name. The name can be hidden with the “Hide minimal step name” toggle; it reappears on hover.
- Standard: the regular step card with name, status and duration, collapsed.
- Verbose: the step card expanded, showing the state and subscription delta.
Detail level selector¶
The process detail page has a Detail selector with three levels: Minimal, Standard and Verbose. It replaces the former “Expand all” toggle. The selected level combined with the importance of a step determines its presentation:
| Detail level | high step |
default step |
low step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal | Standard | Minimal | Minimal |
| Standard | Verbose | Standard | Minimal |
| Verbose | Verbose | Verbose | Standard |
Steps that need attention are never collapsed to Minimal, regardless of importance. A running step, a suspended step waiting for user input, and a failed step at the end of the process are shown at least as Standard.
Interacting with steps¶
Clicking a step expands it one presentation level: Minimal becomes Standard and Standard becomes Verbose. Clicking a Verbose step shrinks it back to its base presentation for the current detail level. A step without state to show cannot be expanded to Verbose and goes back to Minimal directly when that is its base.
Navigating to a step from the timeline shows that step as Standard when it would otherwise be Minimal, and as Verbose otherwise.