• Aninitiator

•  screen where the required action (e.g. delete) is initiated from

• A confirmation

•  screen that contains the confirmation message, plus buttons to confirm/proceed or cancel/go back
  • the button for confirm/proceed must be set up with an Action Type of Confirmation
  • the button for cancel/go back must be set up with an Action Type of Close Screen

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• The Serene Grey palette contains a template confirmation screen with preconfigured Confirm and Cancel buttons

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See Creating or Opening a Screen.

Creating Confirmation Messages

1. On the confirmation screen, click on the Confirm button to open its 

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   , then click on the 

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2. In the Action Settings, set:
   1. Action Method: choose Other
   2. Action Type: choose Confirmation
      1. this setup allows the Confirm button to trigger the next phase in the Actionflow
3. On the initiator screen, set up the Actionflow for the required action, e.g.

1.  Delete
2. Open the Actionflow for the required action, and above the Actionflow canvas, click the 

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1.  icon next to the Processing 

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2. Choose Add Phase Before to set up the confirmation phase
3. On the confirmation phase, select Click to Connect and choose the Input of On Click
4. From the Actionflow toolbar, click 

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   to open the list of available screens
   1. Drag the confirmation screen onto the Actionflow to create an 

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       action node
5.  Drag the 

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    icon from Connections onto the Open Confirmation Screen action node to connect them 
6. To allow the confirmation screen to trigger the next

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    phase in the Actionflow, drag a  

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    action node from the toolbar onto the canvas and in the popup select the Processing 

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7. Hover over the 

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    action node and click Image Modified, then click the

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    action node to connect them.

If you are completing this chapter as part of the Actionflow course and using a training instance, this data has already been pre-loaded into the Actionflow Foundation Application.

 For this example, we'll be creating a new screen and working on buttons on the Course Management screen.

1. before and set:
   1. Name: Confirmation 
   2. Press Confirm  
2. Select Click to Connect and choose the Input of On Click 
3. Press Connect Input
4. From the Actionflow toolbar, click 

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   to open the list of available screens in your application
5. Drag the Confirmation Screen you made earlier onto the Actionflow canvas
6. Drag the 

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    icon from Connections onto the Open Confirmation Screen action node to connect them 
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7. From the toolbar, drag a  

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    action node onto the canvas and in the popup select the phase, Processing Phase, to run after the confirmation has been completed

8. Hover your mouse pointer over the

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    Open Confirmation Screen action node, click Image Modified , then connect the

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    action node to the Processing  

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    action node
   

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9. Close the Actionflow to return to the Course Management screen

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     the screen, select a record and press the Image Modified button
    
    1. We can see that the Actionflow is working because when you press Confirm on the Confirmation Screen, the selected record is deleted