Temporary data access by workflow

To process temporary data, you need a workflow (described in Workflow building) that will do the actual processing and also a sub action (described in Sub actions) or form component (described in Form organization) that can be used to launch the workflow.

Workflows launched this way must be synchronous. Synchronous workflows are discussed in Synchronous versus asynchronous workflows.

In order for a workflow to be able to access temporary data, some of its properties must be specified to have certain values. The properties of a workflow are discussed in Start task.

To be able to access temporary data, a workflow must have the value of its Concurrence property specified to be Synchronous and the value of its Temporary Data property to be Temporary.

If a workflow has its properties set this way, then the workflow tasks that are used to get and save temporary data are included in the workflow editor's task palette. The names of these workflow tasks are Get Temp Record Task and Save Permanent Record Task.

Asynchronous workflows processing data from staging tables with DataConnect task(s) are exceptions. Get Temp Record tasks and Save Permanent Record tasks can occur within a DataConnect task. More information about DataConnect tasks is discussed in DataConnect task.