A journal is a record of all operations that have modified data during your session. Based on your preference settings, a journal of your full session can be automatically saved to a location that you specify. For more information, see Setting Journaling Preferences. You can also choose to record part of a session to a journal file, capturing a specific set of actions. Playing back the journal will recreate the recorded actions exactly. Journaling and scripting tools (including recording and playback) are available through the File > Scripting menu in Ansys Workbench.

Journaled sessions can be used to restore work after a crash. Journals are platform-independent and portable, subject to file location consistency between accounts. For information on file path handling within journals and scripts, see File Path Handling in Ansys Workbench.