In PhixFlow, you can draw your business process using BPMN workflows. You can then design application screens. To turn a screen into a user interface, you must configure the operations that PhixFlow will run. Usually, these operations will change:
- either data, for example to update or delete records.
- or the application interface, for example to close one screen and open another.
For example, you can:
- Design a form with editable fields and buttons.
- Connect the form to a stream, to populate the fields with data.
- Make changes to data in the fields.
- Click the "Save" button.
At this point there will be no change to the data in the stream until you have configured the button to perform the operation of updating the data in the stream.
To configure an action,
- In the BPMN workflow, expand an action node.
- Use this to draw out an action flow. Each node in an action flow is a micro-action.
Micro-actions can
- Operate on data: to create, update or delete data
Data micro-actions connect to a stream or data source. - Run a task
- Run analysis on a model
- Open or close a screen/dashboard
- Prompts or messages to communicate with the user
In the action-flow you can connect the output of one micro-action to the input of the next micro-action, and specify rules to determine the conditions under which the micro-action will run.
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 micro-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
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