The workflow is a sequence of steps, executed by the workflow engine. The sequence of the workflow is made of tasks or blocks. Tasks can use the data stored in context stores defined for this workflow.
Attributes
| StartRule | Defines a rule, which is evaluated before the task is performed. If the rule returns
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| StartRuleContextStore | Context store upon which the start rule is evaluated. |
| EndRule | Defines a rule, which is evaluated after the step is finished. If the rule thrown any exceptions, the containing block is stopped from performing. If no exceptions are throwed, the workflow continues on to the next steps. |
| EndRuleContextStore | Context store upon which the end rule is evaluated. |
| Trace | Read only. True if data about execution of this step is recorded to the trace log for debugging purposes. |
| TraceLevel | Specifies how data about the execution of this step will be recorded in the trace log for debugging purposes. All steps have InheritFromParent set as default, so e.g. if you turn on tracing for the workflow or one of its blocks, all steps will inherit this setting and will be traced. |
| OutputContextStore | Defines a context store, to which any output data will be merged after the step is finished. E.g. which context store will get filled by the data returned by the data service. |
| OutputMethod | Specifies how data will get merged into the |
Output Methods
| Ignore | Any output data will be ignored and no context will be updated when the task finishes. |
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| AppendMergeExisting | Any updates to the existing data will be updated, using the entity primary key. Any new data (not found in the original context by the primary key) will be appended to the context. No data will be deleted from the context. This method is default for the Service Method Call task, because e.g. data transformation will typically return subset of the XML data, so they can be updated in the context. If FullMerge would be used, all missing data would get deleted. |
| FullMerge | The context will get updated, so that it will contain only the data returned by the finished task. Data found by using the primary key will get updated, data not found by primary key will get inserted and data which exists in the context but do not exist in the data returned by the task, will get deleted from the context. This method is the default for the User Interface task, because users are allowed to do any updates to the data, including deletions. It is intended that the context shows exactly the same data after editing, that the user saw on the screen, therefore a full comparison and merge must be performed between the data returned from the task and the context. |
Trace Levels
None | Nothing will be recorded. |
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| InheritFromParent | Default. Data will be recorded only if parent steps specify that data should be recorded. |
| TraceArchitect | Data will be recorded only if the workflow is executed from ORIGAM Architect. This is important when you want to debug workflows but you do not want other users, running ORIGAM Desktop Client, to interfere with the trace log. |
| TraceClientAndArchitect | Data will always be recorded. This is important if you cannot reproduce a bug that your customers can. You turn this option on and after the user reproduces the behavior, you can turn tracing off and analyze the trace log. |