Using Table Actions

This topic is for application designers who want to know how to configure actions.

Todo-Anthony: decide if you want to expand this page. It would be helpful to clarify:

To configure an operation using an action:

Add an action directly to the repository. Actions that are not associated with a stream can do things like open dashboards.
For specific stream, you can create an action to operate on the stream data. Action on a stream can:
- create, update or delete data
- run a task
- run analysis on a model
- open or close a screen/dashboard
- show prompts or messages to communicate with the user

Actions can:

make changes to data in a stream. In this case the action is connected to the stream data via one or more action rules.
make changes unrelated to data, for example to open or close a dashboard.
run a task plan.
You can optionally configure
- the contexts in which the action will or will not run using context parameters
- a prompt to confirm the user wants to run the action
- something about uploading a file
- that PhixFlow checks the conditions to allow the action to run are met (validation)
- a task plan that will run after the actions
- any dashboards to open or close when the action completes
- a message to display after the action completes, for example with errors and warnings