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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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Connection Point Types
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Driving Output Connection Point | Input Data Components
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Driving Input Connection Point | Output Data Components
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Learn More
inputinputData 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: clickThe data attribute properties has sections for Parent Details , Audit Summary and the following Basic Settings
Field
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- Date
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Output Connection Properties
Basic Settings
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Actionflow Wire Properties
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Basic Settings
Data Mappings
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Lookup Mappings
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Input Connection Properties
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- Driving: where data is being used by the action node
- Requested: when the input is coming back from a lookup
- Connection Points properties.