Execute an Action in an Action Flow

You can execute any of the actions available in the folders of actions of the Action Flow editor Tools tree.

How to execute an action:

In the Action Flow editor, drag the action from the respective folder in the Tools tree and drop it in the action flow. (Collection of elements that graphically implements the behavior of an action. You can have assign and control elements, exception handlers or you can invoke other actions. The elements are linked through Connectors.)

An Execute Action is created.

If you drop the action on top of an existing connector, this action is inserted at that point. If you drop it in an empty area of the Flow canvas, you have to link it afterwards; otherwise this action is not executed.

An action can have:

Input parameters: Instantiated when the action is executed, through the Arguments property of the Execute Action. How?
Output parameters: When an action is executed, an instance of that action is created. You can access the output parameters of any expression further down the scope in one of the following ways:

Directly type the <instance of action>.<name of parameter>; for example:

CalculateArea.Result

Through the special editors in the folder Locals inside the Expression editor.

If the parameter type is composite, you can browse its definition to reach the attribute you want; the available composite types are Record and Record List.