Details tab: business state machine editor

This topic includes a description of each of the field on the Details tab of the Properties view.

Action

When you first click this properties tab, you will see a button labelled Create. Click it to display your configuration options. By default, the inline visual snippet editor will display.

Use Visual to graphically compose Java™ code using the visual snippet editor, or compose it in a text editor with the Java setting. Alternatively, you can click Invoke to use a graphical user interface to invoke an operation on a reference.

Condition

When you first click this properties tab, you will see a button labelled Create. Click it to display your configuration options. By default, the inline visual snippet editor will display.

Use Visual to graphically compose Java code using the visual snippet editor, or compose it in a text editor with the Java setting. Alternatively, you can click Invoke to use a graphical user interface to invoke an operation on a reference.

If you would like to have the condition evaluate for 'False' instead of 'True', click the Invert result check box.

Timeout

When you first click this properties tab, you will see a button labelled Create. Click it to display your configuration options. By default, the inline visual snippet editor will display.

Use Duration to configure a timeout that will fire after a certain period of time has elapsed, or Expiration if you want it to fire the moment that a specific time and date has been reached. Use Visual to graphically compose Java code using the visual snippet editor, or compose it in a text editor with the Java setting. Alternatively, you can click Invoke to use a graphical user interface to invoke an operation on a reference.