Introduction
Workflows are used to automate application specific business processes. They can be triggered by the scheduling service; manually; or by components. An example of a workflow is a nightly update of price information.
What you are about to learn
- How to configure a workflow configuration from start to finish.
- How to make use of existing processes that are part of your application.
- How to run your workflows, either manually or via scheduling service.
- How to debug your workflow.
Prerequisites
- A personal training environment.
Contact your Novulo consultant if you do not have access to a personal training application for exercises yet. Most exercises only work in combination with a selected set of training data and not in any application.
1. Run a workflow
A) Run a workflow using the workflow configuration âTraining exercise 1aâ. What is the outcome of the workflow?
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Solutions
A)
User with e-mail address: âyour.email@adress.comâ has counted X products.â
2. Create workflow configuration
A) Create a workflow configuration that adds a product with name âWorkflow productâ + date and time.
B) Run the workflow and check if your product was added as expected.
Learnings
- Making use of âAdd/Editâ, a common process that is used a lot in the Architect and workflows.
- Field validations, and how to fix/adhere to those validations.
Solutions
A)
The result should be a new workflow configuration.
B)
The result of running the workflow is that a new product is added with the name " Workflow product" + date and time "
3. Create a workflow configuration with user input
A) Ask the user for a Product name and the product code
B) Run the workflow.
Learnings
- How to add user input in your workflow configuration.
- There are different reasons for creating a workflow, and one reason is to add decisions a user must make for the process to make sense.
