Category: Automation Flow Actions

Performs child actions for each iteration of an list or collection.

After “Foreach” will go the local variable that can be accessed in the child actions. This can be any name you type.

After the “in” will go the collection that will be looped through.

In this instance, “item” will be a local variable that can be used in the child actions.

“variable1” will be the list of items that will be looped through.

Temporary pauses execution of a script based on a predetermined amount of time.

Duration takes a time span ( hours, minutes, seconds).

The Flow Switch acts similar the the Switch action when it comes to evaluating a value.

The difference is it will flow to other actions based on the value.

Select the type of data that will be evaluated.

In this instance, we will select a String value type.

Enter in the expression that will be valuated.

Click the button to the right to bring up the Expression Editor.

The Expression will evaluate the Country Form record’s Country Name field.

We add Sequence action and connect it to the switch.

Select the Case1 connection to bring up the Properties.

The Properties for the connector will be shown.

Click on the case field. We will see if the Country Name is Belgium within quotation marks.

If the Country Name is equal to Belgium, it will peform all the actions in the Sequence to the right.

All other names will peform all the actions in the Sequence to the left.

Provide a designer for modeling a flowchart workflow.

Double click the Flowchart to show the designer.

The Switch action will peform a set of actions based on a value.

When adding a Switch action, select the type of data that will be evaluated.

Enter in the Expression that will be used.

This can be a Variable or hard coded value.

The actions within the Default will be peformed if there is no matches.

Click the Add new case section to add more value checks.

Continuously performs child actions while a condition is met.

Each action within a Sequence will be performed in order.

Checks the Condition and if true peforms all the actions in the Then section, false will peform all actions in the Else section.

Keeps performing all child actions until a condition is met.

The condition will a true of false value.