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In an actionflow, individual actions have connection points to receive data from the previous action. This page explains the type of connection point, and their properties.

Overview

Everything in an actionflow is connected using connection points. They are blue when connected and grey when not connected. There are two types of connections:

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For information about the concepts related to wiring actionflows together using connection points, see Wiring Actionflows

For most action nodes, data flow is configured when you map attributes to the input connection points. For gateway nodes, you can also control the data flow by mapping to output connection points. This is because the expressions in a gateway provide the logic for which path the data flows, and different paths may require different data to pass through the gateway.

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Input Connection Properties

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Basic Settings

FieldDescription
NameBy default input connections are named in. Optionally, replace this with a descriptive name.
Type

Select one of: Todo-Fiona - check definitons are correct

  • Driving: where data is being used by the action node
  • Requested: when the input is coming back from a lookup

Data Attributes

This section has a toolbar with standard buttonsThe 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:

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     and set its properties. Todo-Fiona - why would this be useful
  • drag add an existing attribute to this list Todo-Fiona - is this possible??
  • double-click one of the listed connections to open its properties.
  • remove attributes, select one and click Image Modified Permanently Delete. Todo-Fiona - check icon and label. What does this do? prevent them being passed through?

The data attribute properties has sections for Parent Details , Audit Summary and the following Basic Settings

Field

Description
NameBy default input connections are named in. Optionally, replace this with a descriptive name.
Type

Select one of the data types

  • String
  • Bigstring
  • Integer
  • Float
  • Decimal
  • Date
  • Datetime
  • Graphic
  • TrueFalse


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Output Connection Properties

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Basic Settings

FieldDescription
NameBy default input connections are named in. Optionally, replace this with a descriptive name.
Expression

Todo-Fiona - standardised expression

Order


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Actionflow Wire Properties

Wire properties do not include the name. Todo-Fiona - check - I thought I saw where you could change its name

Basic Settings

FieldDescription
InputThe action at the start of this wire.
Input Connection Point


OutputThe action at the end of this wire.

Data Mappings

Standard text

Lookup Mappings

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