Adding Decisions to a Flow
A Decision is a step that serves as a gateway for a decision in a flow. A Decision performs a calculation and then controls the direction of the flow, based on rules that are used to calculate the result. Decisions do not perform actual operations but only calculate where to navigate next.
More about decisions
For example, a Decision might compare two values and return the difference between them. If the result is higher than a specified value, the flow will branch to one direction and if the result is lower, it will branch to another direction.
It is optional to add Decisions to a flow.
Decision names can contain alphanumeric characters, and underscores ( _ ).
Decision names cannot contain parentheses ( () ), square brackets ( [] ), curly braces ( {} ), hypens ( - ), spaces ( ), and dots (.).
Decisions are read-only and cannot be created and edited in OO Designer, or copied to the Projects pane.
You can use them as steps in flows by dragging them from the Dependencies pane.
Add a decision step to a flow
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Drag a Decision from the Dependencies pane to a flow in the Authoring pane.
Decisions appear in the Dependencies pane with an icon in the shape of a badge
.In the Authoring pane, they appear in the shape of a diamond.
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Drag navigation lines from the decision step's response ports to other steps.
- Click the decision step to open the Step Properties pane at the right side of the canvas.
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Under Inputs, enter any relevant inputs. For example, if the action is to compare two values, specify how these values will be assigned to the inputs.
For more information about assigning values to inputs, see Defining Step Properties.
- Under Outputs, enter any relevant outputs.
View the details of a Decision
You can view their details in the Editor.
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Double-click a Decision in the Dependencies pane, in order to display its details in the Editor.
Decisions appear in the Dependencies pane with an icon in the shape of a badge
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Under Inputs, view the inputs that were defined for this decision. For example, if the action is to compare two values, these are included as inputs.
See Inputs.
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Under Outputs, view any outputs that were defined for this decision.
See Outputs.
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Under Results, view the results that were defined for this decision.
See Results.
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Under the Description tab, view a description of what the Decision does, if one was entered.
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To view the code behind the Decision, click the Show as Text
button. A text box appears, displaying the code. 
If there is an error in the decision step, a red error flag is displayed. Click the flag to display a tooltip with information about the error.
