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Creating the Fore Method Call Step

To create the step calling the Fore method, open the Fore method call step wizard.

To open the wizard

After the basic step properties have been determined, click the Next button on the first page of the wizard.

Step description

The next wizard page is Step Description:

Determine the following for the Fore Method Call step on the Step Description page:

Fore Unit. The box is mandatory. Select the start Fore unit in the drop-down list, when selecting you can use search. The list contains repository objects tree where units and folders containing them are only displayed. To edit the selected Fore method, click the button. The Fore development environment opens.

NOTE. The unit must not contain any external parameters.

Method Name. Select the Fore method name in the list. The method name must completely match the name specified inside the unit.

Step Execution Time. The time, in which a step must be executed on process execution.

Enter a numeric value of step execution time and select a time measurement unit in the list:

Minute.
Hour.
Day (default).
Week.
Month.
Quarter.
Half-year.
Year.

To determine time by which step must be finished, select the Finish Step By checkbox. On selecting the "minutes" or "hours" time measurement units, this box is hidden.

If the step is not finished by the scheduled execution period, the step status becomes Expired.

The step execution period impacts the whole process execution period, which is determined on starting process for execution.

Step Description. The box is optional. A text box for entering a comment for a step.

NOTE. To speed up resourceintensive methods, select the Execute Calculation and Fore Methods Steps at BI Server checkbox in process settings.

After the parameters have been determined on the Step Description page, click the Next button.

Events

The next wizard page is Events:

Set up automatically executed actions launched on step execution start or end.

On generating a list of executed actions, select a tab with event first:

Before Execution. The list of actions will be started before executing the current step in the specified order.
After Execution. The list of actions will be started after executing the current step in the specified order.

To add an event, click the button on the ribbon. The number of added actions is unlimited.

Actions to be added:

. Execute Fore method. In the right part of the window select:

Unit. In the drop-down list select a unit written in the Fore language, the list contains all repository units and folders containing units. Search by unit name is available.
Method. In the drop-down list select a method. The list contains all unit methods corresponding to the signature:

Sub <Fore-method name>(Sender: IBProcessInstance; Args: IBProcessStepStateEventArgs);

Parameter:

Sender. Process instance.

Args. Event information: step, step old state, new state.

. Send Email Notification. In the right part of the window select:

To; Copy; Bcc. The recipient email is entered manually, using option of copy/paste from clipboard.
Subject. The email subject is entered manually, using option of copy/paste from clipboard.
Contents. The contents is entered manually using the option of variables values substitution with step parameters, links to step objects to view in the web application, file attachment.

NOTE. Email notification can be sent only from Windows OS.

To change order of operations execution, use the / buttons on the toolbar, to delete - the button.

The list of automatically executed actions can be empty.

Click the Finish button to exit the wizard.

NOTE. To speed up resourceintensive reports, select the Execute Calculation and Fore Methods Steps at BI Server checkbox in process settings.

After creating the process steps, set up process steps execution conditions.