pp108 : Types of Actions

Types of Actions

This topic describes the default types of actions available in Process Platform, that you can perform when a business object is in a particular state.

Consider an insurance claim scenario to understand the fields below:

Field Names Description Parameters Description of Parameters
Business Process Select this option to invoke a business process model. A business process is modeled based on the sequence of activities in the insurance claim. This business process model can be triggered in the initial state when the request for the insurance claim is received. Before selecting this option, ensure that you draw a business process model and publish it. For information on creating a Business Process Model, refer to Business Modeling. Refer to Business Process Model Input for State Object Model for information on the XML code that must be added in the property sheet. The namespace of the business process model must be of the format :http://schemas.cordys.com/rcor/1.0 Process Name Select a published business process model.
User Select the user under whose context the business process model is invoked.
Mail Select this option to send an e-mail. In the insurance claims example, you can use this option for any mail communication external to Process Platform environment. You may have to send an e-mail to the customer to intimate the status of the insurance claim. To Specify the recipient of the e-mail.
From Specify the sender of the e-mail.
Subject Specify the subject of the e-mail.
Message Specify the message contents of the e-mail.
Notification Select this option to send a notification. Use this option for any communication that is internal to Process Platform. In the insurance claim example, send a notification from the business process model to inform the responsible person to verify the claims. Send To Specify the recipient of the notification.
Subject Specify the subject of the notification.
Update Hub Entity Select this option to update the hub data entity. Create Registry Link Select this check box to create a registry link between spoke and hub entity records.
Registry Services Select this option to add the object to the list of identifiers. Create Registry Link Select this option check box to link or add the identifier of a data entity to the registry.
Remove Registry Link Select this check box to delink or remove the identifier of a data entity to the registry.
Synchronize Spokes Select this option to synchronize the spokes Synchronize Back To Source Select this check box, if you want to update the source with information that was not included when the source originally sent the data.
Synchronize Shared Data Select this check box, if a record is already present in the hub, spokes and the keys in the registry, and you want to update the existing records. This option is not applicable for insert operation.
Create Registry Links Select this check box, if you want to create a registry link between hub and spoke entity records.
Web Service Select this option to use a Web service Web service Select an existing Web service or model a new Web service.
Request Transformation Select an existing data transformation or model a new data transformation. For information on modeling a new data transformation, refer to Modeling Data Transformation. The source schema of the selected data transformation schema must be the schema of the business object used in the hub entity. The target schema must be the selected Web service request with the root element being the method name. If such an XML schema does not exist, it must be created.
Response Transformation Select an existing data transformation or model a new data transformation. For information on modeling a new data transformation, refer to Modeling Data Transformation. The source schema of the selected data transformation must be the response schema of the selected web service with the root element being the response name of the method. If such an XML schema does not exist, it must be created. The target schema must be the schema of the business object used in the hub entity.
Transform Select this option to map the attributes of a business object to another Data Transformation Select an existing data transformation or model a new data transformation. For information on modeling a new data transformation, refer to Modeling Data Transformation.
Match Select this option to use the match data quality operation Event Specify the event name, present in the State Model that you want to fire, when the matches are present.
Cleanse Select this option to use the cleanse data quality operation
Note: Select this action only when the data quality is enabled.
(Name, Value) pair Specify the name and value parameters. These parameters are accessed at run-time when the State Model processes this action.
SignalStateModel Select this option to fire an event on a differecent State Model (Name, Value) pair Specify the name and value parameters. These parameters are accessed at run-time when the State Model processes this action.
Send Event Select this option to trigger an event to continue with the state model execution. Event Name Specify the name of the event. This event name should be mapped to any of the event names of the outgoing transitions defined on that state.
Synchronize Source Spoke Select this option to synchronize the data with the source spoke. - -