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Workflows implement jobs and dependencies for workload automation. Orders are triggers that cause the execution of workflows.

• The Configuration View offers provides a graphical design view from the JS7 - Workflow Editor.
• The Workflows View offers provides a tactical view that which can be used to monitor the processing of orders with workflows in near real-time and perform interventions if required.

Orders in a workflow can be started from specific positions and can be made to end with at specific positions:

Start Position and End Positions of Orders in a Workflow

When adding orders Orders can be added from JS7 - Schedules and , from the Workflows view and when modifying orders they are modified in the JS7 - Daily Plan then . In each case they can be assigned:

• a start position in the workflow:
  • users can select a later instruction, for example a job in a workflow, from at which the order will start,
  • any top-level instructions can be selected.
• any number of end positions in the workflow:
  • more than one position can be selected,
  • any top-level instructions can be selected.

Note: The start position and end positions specify the instructions in a workflow before which an order will start or complete. This means that the instruction at the start position will be executed when the order starts but that the instruction at the end position will not be executed.

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The popup window for adding orders allows to select the start position and end positions to be selected.

• Users can select top-level instructions as positions. Nested instructions cannot be selected as positions.
• A single start position can be selected and any number of end positions following the start position can be selected.
  
  

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Adding Order Positions from the Graphical View

The Clicking theImage Added icon in the popup window for adding orders offers causes the Image Removed icon to display the graphical workflow view for selecting a start position and end positions to be displayed:

• For the start position users Users can click a single top-level instruction to select the start position.
• For the end positions users Users can click any number of top-level instructions to select the end positions at which the order will complete the workflow.
  • A first click selects the position.
  • A second click unselects the position.
    
    

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