View External Data

The View External Data option opens a browser window and loads it with an XML document built from information stored in the database versus. The difference between internal and external data is that internal data relates to activities generated within the Workflow model instance record, while external data relates to data that exists outside of activities, such as table and variable information.

To launch XML data in a browser, the host computer may need to be configured to launch XML documents (.xml extensions) in a preferred default app (a Web browser, in this case). Steps to set this up depend on the host's operating system.