Defining Process Flow Output Properties

Each step may produce results in the form of specific data points. If the process flow is a sub-process, it can store this data within the Context Object for use by a later step in the process flow or it can write the data to an external log. You should define only data returned by the process flow (which may act as a sub-process based step in another process flow) on the Output Properties tab.

When adding a component to a Validation process flow, you must define the ValidationMessage output property to set the process flow property ValidationMessage. This is required because the property collection on a process flow component is independent from the property collection of the process flow itself. If the ValidationMessage output property is not defined, the message from the process flow component is never passed to the process flow and the user receives an error instead of the intended validation message.

Follow these steps to define Output Properties for a process flow:

Click the Output Properties tab.
Click the New icon to open a new record.
Enter the Name of the output property.
Enter a Description of the output property.
Select the property's data type from the Type list.
- The valid values are String, Integer, Long, Currency, Decimal, Date/Time, Boolean, and Object.
- Typically, an output property corresponds to a Field value from an entity so the Type should match the Field's SQL Data Type as defined in the entity.
Click OK to save and close the record.
Repeat steps 2 through 6 to define additional output properties.
- Alternatively, you can click OK and New in Step 6 to save the current record and open a new Output Properties record in one step.
Save the Process Flows record.

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Defining Process Flow Output Properties