Creating a Step

You can create a step in a simulation activity that operates on documents and files or executes an application.

See Also
About Steps
About Rules
Creating Rules
Assigning an Application Connector
  1. From the search menu in the Top Bar, search for and select the simulation activity in which the step will be created.
    Process Composer displays the simulation activity in the navigation pane and the table page.
  2. From the navigation pane, select Steps.
    Process Composer displays the Steps page.
  3. From the Actions menus, select Create New.

    Note: You can also create a step, by right-clicking on an existing step in the Steps page and selecting Create Step Above or Create Step Below from the menu that appears.

  4. From the Steps window that appears, do the following:
    1. Enter the Title of the step.
    2. Select the Type of step.
    3. Use the Advanced Options to choose whether to do the following:

      • Skip the step entirely.
      • Pause before executing the step; for example, to create a file or to provide some input to an application.
      • Pause after executing the step.

    4. Click Done to create the step.
      The step appears in the table page.
  5. Do the following to configure the step:
    • To create a rule in a download, upload or delete step, select the step from the table page, and select Create New from the Steps Configuration page that appears.
    • To assign a connector to an OS command step, right-click the step in the table page and select Assign Connector from the menu that appears.