About Flow Action
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A flow action rule controls how users interact with work object forms to complete assignments. After selecting one flow action, users may fill in a section of the form to complete (perform) the assignment.
In a flow rule, developers can associate flow actions with connectors (arrows) and with assignment tasks. At runtime, the flow actions associated with an assignment determine the choices available to users as they perform the assignment.
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Choose the
wording for the Short Description field
carefully, so that it is meaningful in context to application
users who must select one action from the list. Starting each
Short Description text with an action verb
such as "Approve", "Reject",
"Send", or "Transfer" is often helpful to
users. This is known as intent-driven
processing.
On Perform work object forms presented with the default action section, the form area created by a flow action normally appears in yellow, headed by an action list:
The text in the
Short Description field appears as
user-visible text in the action selection list.
Two other formats are supported. See Presenting flow actions — Comparing three approaches.
Use the Application Explorer or User Interface slice
(
) to access the
flow action rules that apply to the work types in your
application. Use the Rules by Type Explorer to list all the
flow action rules available to you.
After initial development and testing, selected flow action rules can be maintained by line business managers rather than by application developers. The Form tab of the form provides managers access to the fields most often updated.
For each flow action rule in your application, consider
which business changes might require rule updates, and whether
to delegate the rule to non-developers who then can make such
updates directly. See How to build for
change.
Flow action rules are part of the User Interface category. A flow action rule is an instance of the Rule-Obj-FlowAction rule type.
How to unit test a flow action rule
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