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What is
an Actionflowa Converge Action?
An Action
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Creating Converge Actions
- Click an
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Worked Example
Here's a worked example using the Shop Data (available from the Learning Centre).
In this example, we are using:
- A Customer Form screen containing blank input fields, set up to create a new customer - this screen was created using the Edit Form template
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GIF/SCREENSHOT OF FINISHED RESULT
For this example, we'll create
We recommend that you have prior knowledge of
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SEE ACTIONFLOW ON SAVE BUTTON ON NEW CUSTOMER FORM
Converge Actionflow
Example:
- Open the Customer Form and unlock the screen
- If you have completed the chapter xxxx on xxxxx, right-click on the Save button and choose
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- Right-click on the screen and choose
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- If you have completed the chapter xxxx on xxxxx, right-click on the Save button and choose
- Open the Actionflow on the Save button
- Create a
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Joined Mailing List
- Name:
- Add this between the input and save action
- Choose the out Output Connection Point
- Click on the input connection point and map in the attribute, mailingList, into the Actionflow
- Map this into the gateway node
- On the gateway node, create 2 rules:
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