You
use interaction nodes to specify the actions that occur
in a workflow process between different applications.
About this task
Use
the Interaction Nodes Properties window to specify the
following properties for interaction nodes:
- Application
- Used to specify the application that displays.
- Tab
- Used to specify the tab that displays.
Use the tab identifier
from the Extensible Markup Language (XML) presentation file as the
value for the tab name. Tab identifiers are not in the database. You
must specify them manually.
- Action
- Used to specify an action that either displays or that is performed
by the product. You can select from actions available by means of
a toolbar button or from the Select Action menu.
- Relation
- Used to create an
interaction that leads to another application.
The information in the Relation field determines
which record to display when the application opens.
- Process
- Used to specify an active workflow
process for the specified application.
The process starts on the current record upon arrival in the target
application.
- Direction Title
- Used to specify the title of the message window that displays.
- Direction Body
- Used to specify
the text of the instructions that displays in
a message window.
The absence of a title or
the absence
of a body does not create a window.
Procedure
- From
the List tab of the Workflow
Designer application, select a process with properties to be modified.
- From the Canvas tab, right-click
the interaction node
and select Properties.
- Optional: Type a description.
- In the Application field, specify
a value.
- In the Tab Name field,
type the
tab identifier from the XML presentation file.
- In
the Action field, specify a value.
- In the Relation field, specify
a
value.
- In the Launch Process field,
specify
a value.
- In the Directions Title field,
type
the title of the message window.
- In the Directions
Body field, type
the instructions that the product displays in the message window.
- Click OK and click Save
Process.