List of Statements to Build Conditions

When creating Workflows, developers and object designers can assign conditions to individual tasks. These conditions affect the execution of the task in the Workflow in which they are inserted. There are Preconditions, Postconditions and Conditions (for IF Workflows only). For more information, see Precondition and Postcondition Tabs and Conditions Tab (IF Workflows).

This topic describes the sets of predefined statements that you can use to build your conditions:

Condition statements, which are the basis of IF statements in your task preconditions and postconditions.
Action statements, which are the basis of THEN statements.
Finally statements.

Each statement is a sentence with placeholders for parameters. You specify the values for the parameters to describe the conditions or actions that you need.

CONDITION Statements (IF)

The following statements are available for Conditions in IF Workflows:

CHECK ACTIVITIES

Description: Checks the number of times that an object has run with a particular status.

Parameters:

TASK=Name or alias of the task
OPERATOR=Comparison operator (>, <, =, etc.)
COUNT=Number of runs
STATUS

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

CHECK CONNECTION

Description: Checks whether there is a connection to a machine or a system. This condition has the same function as the script element SYS_HOST_ALIVE.

Parameters:

CONNECTION=Connection object
AGENT

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

CHECK FILE

Description: Checks whether a particular file exists. Only the OS Agent can check the file. An error occurs if the task is an SAP job.

Parameters:

FILENAME
CONDITION=Exists/Does not exist
AGENT. *OWN means that the Agent of the task (if available) is used.
LOGIN=

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

CHECK HISTORY

Description: Checks whether the last run of a task has ended with a particular status in a particular time span.

Parameters:

DAYS
TIME
TASK=Object name of the task
STATUS

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

CHECK PROCESS

Description: Checks whether a particular process runs on a machine. This is only possible with Windows and UNIX platforms.

Parameters:

PROCESS=PID (process ID) or the name of the process.
AGENT
LOGIN=Login object
CONDITION

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

CHECK CURRENT QUEUE

Description: Checks whether the task runs in a particular Queue

Parameters:

QUEUE

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

CHECK CURRENT TIME

Description: Checks whether a certain point in time lies before or after the current (physical) point in time. The task time zone is used.

Parameters:

CONDITION=Before/After
TIME (HH:MM)

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

CHECK RETURN CODE

Description: Checks the return code of the task.

Parameters:

OPERATOR=Comparison operator (>, <, =, etc.)
RETURN CODE

Available as precondition: No

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

CHECK STATUS

Description: Checks the end status of the task

Parameters:

STATUS

Available as precondition: No

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

TIME SINCE ACTIVATION

Description: Checks the time that has past since the task has been activated.

Parameters:

OPERATOR=More/Less
TIME SPAN(HH:MM)

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

USER DEFINED

Description: Compares two values of your choice. Only the predefined variables whose values are available at the time they are accessed will be resolved. Variables can be used for system, object and Variable object values.

Parameters:

VALUE 1
OPERATOR=Comparison operator (>, <, =, etc.)
VALUE 2

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

ACTION Statements (THEN)

The following ACTION (THEN) statements are available:

CHANGE QUEUE

Description: Moves the task to another Queue

Parameters:

QUEUE in which the task should run

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: No

Available as condition: No

DELETE ENTRY FROM VARIABLE

Description: Removes a key (entry) from a static Variable object.

Parameters:

VARIABLE=Name of the VARA object
KEY- Wildcards (* and ?) are allowed.

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

START OBJECT

Description: Starts any object and does not check its end status. Read buffer variables are supplied with values and can be read in this object's script. For more information, see List of Predefined Read Buffer Variables.

Parameters:

OBJECTNAME=Name of the executable object
PARAMETERS=Values as defined in the PromptSet assigned to the object. You have to select an object and accept the condition first and then click on PARAMETERS to load the PromptSet values you must populate.
If the object has no PromptSets assigned, clicking PARAMETERS opens an empty section.
END=Wait/No wait

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

MODIFY RETURN CODE

Description: Modifies the return code of the task

Parameters:

CODE
MESSAGE=Optional text

Available as precondition: No

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

PUBLISH VALUE

Description: Makes a specific value available for the Workflow as a variable.

Parameters:

VALUE
VARIABLE name=Name of the VARA object

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

REDO EVALUATE AT

Description: Ends the processing of the conditions and actions at a particular point in time.

Parameters:

DAYS
TIME (HH:MM)

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: No

Available as condition: No

REDO EVALUATE IN

Description: Ends the processing of the conditions and actions after a particular time span.

Parameters:

Time span in MINUTES

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: No

Available as condition: No

SET OBJECT VARIABLE

Description: Creates or changes an object variable.

Important! To use this object variable, you must have activated the option Generate Task at: Runtime (Post Process is exempted) regardless of the settings that are defined in the parameter scope of the task or the workflow.
Otherwise, the system tries to access a non-existing variable or returns the old value (if the variable is already defined in the object)

Parameters:

OBJECT VARIABLE
VALUE
SCOPE=Task or Workflow

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

SET VARIABLE

Description: Creates or changes variable value.

Parameters:

VARIABLE NAME=Name o the VARA object
KEY
COLUMN
VALUE

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

FINALLY Statements (FINALLY)

The following FINAL (FINALLY) statements are available:

ABORT

Description: Sends an abort signal. And stops further processing

Parameters:

TEXT=Text to be sent

Available as precondition:

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition:

BLOCK

Description: Blocks the branch in the Workflow from the current task onwards.

Parameters:

TEXT (optional)

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

CANCEL WORKFLOW

Description: Cancels the Workflow at the specified levels. Processing stops immediately.

Parameters:

SCOPE=OWN*/Parent/Top
SUBORDINATE TASKS=Include/exclude

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

RUN TASK

Description: Starts the task immediately and ends the checks.

Parameters:

No parameters

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: No

Available as condition: No

SKIP TASK

Description: Skips the task. No further conditions or actions will be processed.

Parameters:

MESSAGE=Additional status text (optional)

For limitations, see STATUS_TEXT in :MODIFY_STATE

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: No

Available as condition: No

RESTART TASK

Description: Ends processing and starts the task again after a particular time.

Parameters:

Time span in MINUTES

Available as precondition: Yes

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: Yes

ROLLBACK

Description:

Parameters:

Available as precondition: No

Available as postcondition: Yes

Available as condition: No

PROCESS IF BRANCH

Description: Based on the condition results, determines whether processing continues on the TRUE or FALSE branch of the IF-workflow.

Parameters:

TRUE/FALSE return value
ALIAS of true or false branch for the action

Available as precondition: No

Available as postcondition: No

Available as condition: Yes