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Control Flow Activities
appConnector Base Activities are made up the most commonly used activity modules in the appRules product suite.
appConnector Base Activities
The Control Flow activities module provides activities for controlling flow of execution within your project.
Control Flow Activities
Note that while activities such as the Parallel and Sequence schedule multiple child activities for execution simultaneously, only a single thread is used for a workflow. Each child activity of these activities executes sequentially and successive activities do not execute until previous activities either complete or go idle. As a result, these activities are most useful for applications in which several potentially blocking activities must execute in an interleaved fashion. If none of the child activities of these activities go idle, a Parallel activity executes just like a Sequence activity.
The table below shows the activities in the Control Flow activities module and their key properties.
Activity | Description |
FlowDecision | FlowChart Activity with Yes/No branches based on a Condition  |
If | Condition Activity which models an If-Then-Else action  |
Parallel | Executes all child activities simultaneously and asynchronously.  |
Sequence | Executes a set of child activities according to a single, defined ordering.  |
While | Executes a contained set of workflow elements while a condition evaluates to true.  |
Switch | Executes a contained set of activities depending on a value (can be a datafield read in a source, a variable, a parameter value)  |
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