Step

Activity steps

A step is the primary processing unit of an activity. Normal sequential processing of an activity completes the numbered sequence of steps in order, defined on the Steps tab of the Activity form. When the activity executes, any of several conditions may alter this sequence, transfer control to a different activity, or end the activity.

Each step may call a method and designate a step page — one clipboard page that is the implicit or default source and destination of properties for that method.

In some system-generated Java displays, the older term "block" refers to a step.

A step that contains hand-coded Java source code is known as a Java step.

Other steps

• Rows of the Collection tab of the Collection rule form and the Steps tab of the Parse Structured rule form are also called steps.
• The required and optional tasks comprising a stage that are defined in the Case Designer Stages & Processes tab. See Using the Stages & Processes tab.

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