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This page is for application designers who want to define a process using an actionflow diagram. It introduces the action nodes that make up an actionflow.
Overview
An actionflow diagram is made up of a series of nodes. Each node represents a specific action. By configuring different actions and wiring them together you can create complex functionality.
For information about connecting actionflow nodes together, see Wiring Actionflows.
Adding Action Nodes
The toolbar includes the following action nodes that you can drag onto the actionflow canvas.
Actions can be added to actionflows in 3 ways:
- Drag actions from the create section in the toolbar
- From existing action nodes
Users can create new actions from connections from existing actions.
- Dragging the following items from the repository using
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The action nodes have connections, which are blue when connected and grey when not connected, see Wiring Actionflows and Connection Points. Action nodes have
input connections, where data is passed into the node
output connections, which pass data to the next node.
Usually, connections are
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, which act like a lookup. These send out a request for data, which is returned to the action node data. The table below shows the types of connection available on an action node.Types of Action Node
The following table summarises the purpose of each type of action node, with a link to the reference page for the node.
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see Open URL Node | Add an action to open a specified URL. | Insert excerpt |
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see Analysis Node | Add tables to run analysis. | Insert excerpt |
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What's next?
For details about the properties for the action nodes and their connections, see:
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