This page is for application designers who want to define a process using a workflow diagram, and then connect elements of the diagram to PhixFlow dashboards and actions in an application. This page describes properties
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| Name | Enter the name for the action node. | ||||||||||||||||
| Show in the Explorer | An application can have many actionflows, and an individual actionflow can have many actions. This can lead to many items being listed in the repository. Use this option to omit the action from the repository.
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| Stream Item Action | todo - find out if this can be renamed to something else unless it really relates to existing stream item actions. Available for save actions. Select the specific change to make to the data records
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| Stream Name | Select the stream ?? todo why isn't this identified by the parent of the attribute/record? | ||||||||||||||||
| Exclusive | Available for gateway actions.
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Input Connection Points
todo -
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Save does not have input connection points, although delete does.
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Input properties has sections for Parent Details , Audit Summary and the following Basic Settings and Data Attributes.
Basic Settings
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| Name | By default input connections are named in. Optionally, replace this with a descriptive name. |
| Type | Select one of: todo - check definitons are correct
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Data Attributes
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of the attributes that will pass through the input wire to this action. PhixFlow automatically lists the attributes that pass into the action when the actionflow is wired to an input with attributes. You can also:
- create a new attribute: click
and set its properties. todo - why would this be usefulInsert excerpt _add _add nopanel true - Drag add an existing attribute to this list todo - is this possible??
To remove attributes, select one and click 
Permanently Delete. todo - check icon and label. What does this do? prevent them being passed through?
This has its own properties todo - separate properties so should be on its own page. Should this have a description?
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Calculate actions process data using expressions; see pages in the topic Expressions and Scripts.
This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of the expressions that the calculate action will perform. To add a new expression:
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