Components of a Workflow in Process Composer for Dashboard

Simulation Process

A workflow contains a single simulation process. In the example above Airplane_Sizing refers to the simulation process. A simulation process is the parent container for the procedures and the data that are required to run the workflow along with the data generated by the workflow.

Simulation Activities

A simulation process can contain multiple simulation activities. In this example, DOE (Design of Experiments) refers to a simulation activity within the simulation process and is one of four simulation activities. The structure of the simulation process controls the sequence in which the simulation activities run.

Steps

A simulation activity contains steps; an adapter is referred to as a step when it is added to a simulation activity. Steps run in sequence. For example, the figure below shows a simulation activity containing three steps. Data moves between steps and between simulation activities within a simulation process.

Gateways

Gateways create branches in the simulation process. Gateways also collect branches and return them to a single flow.

In the Process Composer native app, you can specify that a branch always runs, that a branch never runs, or that a branch runs only when a condition is true. However, in Process Composer for Dashboard the gateway acts only as a device that allows you to construct parallel workflows (you can only specify that a branch always runs).