Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Author Flows
- Create or Edit a Flow
- Create Steps in a Flow
- Create Navigation Lines between Steps in a Flow
- Add Result Steps to a Flow
- Define Flow Properties
- Inputs
- Outputs
- Sensitive Flow Input, Output, and System Properties
- Results
- Define Step Properties
- Edit the Expression of a Value for an Input or Output
- Extract and Modify Output Values
- Add Decisions to a Flow
- Change the Start Step
- Create Flows with Loops
- View the CloudSlang Code
- YAML File Textual Representation
- Validate Flows
Add 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.
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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.
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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
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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 Define Step Properties.
- Under Outputs, enter any relevant outputs.
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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.
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