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Creating an Empty Orchestration Workflow For the Calculate Step

Prerequisites:

You performed the steps in Creating a Practice Process App for Using the Step Palette.

In this exercise, you create an empty synchronous workflow. In the next section, you add and configure a Calculate step.

To create an empty orchestration workflow for the Calculate step:

  1. In App Explorer, under StepPaletteApp, under Application Workflows, select StepPaletteAppWF.
  2. In the application workflow editor, right-click the Calculate transition, and select Show Actions on the menu.
  3. On the Actions tab of the Property Editor, click New.

    The Action Wizard asks, "Which type of action do you want to execute?"

    Under Step 1, Orchestration Workflow should be selected.

  4. In the Step 2 box, click the and continue executing (asynchronous) link, select and wait for reply (synchronous), and then click Next.

    The Action Wizard asks, "When do you want to call the orchestration workflow?"

  5. In the Step 1 box, select After, do not change anything in the Step 2 box, and then click Next.

    The Action Wizard asks, "Which orchestration workflow do you want to call?"

  6. On the menu under Step 1, select (Add new workflow...).
  7. In the Event With Reply dialog box, do the following:
    1. Change the Name to CalculateOrchWFWR.
    2. On the Orchestration menu, select StepPaletteOrch.
    3. In the Workflow box, change the name to CalculateOrchWF.
    4. In the Fields used by event column, select the Title check box.
    5. In the Fields returned by event column, select the Title check box.
    6. Click OK.
  8. In the Action Wizard, click Finish.

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