Instruction

This term has two uses.

Instructions in activities

Most rows on an activity form contain a call to a PRPC method, such as the Page-New method. For technical reasons, the choices Call, Collect, Branch, Run, and Java are known as instructions, not methods.

Instructions on worklists

A brief unedited text phrase labelled Instructions can appear on user worklist and workbasket displays. Application developers can enter this text in the assignment Shape Properties(referenced in the flow rule) that creates the assignment. Alternatively, an activity can set the corresponding property Assign-.pyInstructions.

As a best practice, choose instruction text that starts with an imperative verb and conveys to the application user the goal or intent of completing the assignment; these are known as "intent-driven".

Instruction values starting with the word Error: indicate internal configuration problems, such as:

• The work item identified in the assignment cannot be opened
• The flow rule referenced in the assignment cannot be found R-11835 C-664 12/24/03

You can research and address such problem assignments, also called assignments in error.

	assignment, intent-driven processing, method, problem assignment, worklist
	Working with the Assignments in Error reports Branching to another activity Calling another activity Using Java in an activity step

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