{"id":2375,"date":"2013-12-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/20\/powertip-debug-a-workflow-with-powershell-4-0\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-debug-a-workflow-with-powershell-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-debug-a-workflow-with-powershell-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Debug a Workflow with PowerShell 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0 to debug a workflow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;How do I set a breakpoint in a Windows PowerShell script workflow?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;Add the workflow to a script and use <b>Set-PSBreakpoint<\/b> to set a line breakpoint in the workflow:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Set-PSBreakpoint -Script C:Test-MyWorkflow1.ps1 -Line 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">ID Script&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Line Command&nbsp;&nbsp; Variable&nbsp; Action<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;- &#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">&nbsp;&nbsp; 0 WFExample1.ps1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0 to debug a workflow. &nbsp;How do I set a breakpoint in a Windows PowerShell script workflow? &nbsp;Add the workflow to a script and use Set-PSBreakpoint to set a line breakpoint in the workflow: Set-PSBreakpoint -Script C:Test-MyWorkflow1.ps1 -Line 12 &nbsp; ID Script&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Line Command&nbsp;&nbsp; Variable&nbsp; Action &#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;- &#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 4.0 to debug a workflow. &nbsp;How do I set a breakpoint in a Windows PowerShell script workflow? &nbsp;Add the workflow to a script and use Set-PSBreakpoint to set a line breakpoint in the workflow: Set-PSBreakpoint -Script C:Test-MyWorkflow1.ps1 -Line 12 &nbsp; ID Script&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Line Command&nbsp;&nbsp; Variable&nbsp; Action &#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;- &#8212;&#8212;-&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}