Configuring Processing Steps

A processing step is the smallest configuration element that can be executed. Each procesing step is an executeable task and is associated with either an External Programs or a Data Exchange Profile.

To define new Processing Steps follow these steps:

1. From the Model Type Editor select a Step and click Edit or click Add to create a new step.

2. Click on the created empty step and enter the Step Index (step name), step Description and select the appropriate External Programs

3. Expand the step to get access to parameter assignment by clicking on the + to the left of the step. Screen will look as below.

4. Parameter values can be assigned directly to a step as either local paameters (Local Params) or as global parameters (Global Param Ref).

• To assign a global parameter click Global Param Ref followed by Add.

  

  • Then select the parameter group from the drop-down list in the Global Param Ref field and specify the ‘Remove mode’. A ‘Remove Mode’ of True indicates that parameter values passed from the user through the Execute Process application should be overwriten by the values in the parameter group.

    

• To assign a local parameter click Local Params followed by Add.

  

  • Then enter the parameter name in Add and parameter value in Param Value.

    

Note

Local Parameters assigned to a step take priority over parameters entered by the user in the Execute Process application. Read about Model Type parameter value assignment priorities.

Note

Most parameters are used by external programs. To find the correct parameter name for the parameters associated with a particular external program see External Programs

See also

Parameter Groups and Processing Groups