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Start

This Task is the start of all workflows and this is allowed only once in a workflow.task_start

Options

  • run time of this workflow
    (Should the workflow executed immediately or asynchronous (asynchronous creates a 1 second delay and execute the workflow with the next cronjob)
  • parallel execution
    If you use a [delay] or [set values] task, it could result in recursive execution, which could result in problems with the server
    You should only activate parallel execution if you know you need multiple instances of one Workflow per record
  • only one execution per Record
    Only execute this workflow one time per record. Couldn't be reset and the workflow couldn't executed manually, too!

Triggers

On first save Execute when a record is created
On every save Execute every time a record is modified (From the User or the Webservice)
Start manually Don't execute this workflow automatically. You could execute this workflow only manually from sidebar or from other Workflows
start with email sending Execute every time a mail is stored for a record (Regardless if you send or the MailScanner connect)
start on new comment Execute every time a comment is created for a record
import Process Won't be started manually. Needs to be set for Import Workflows

Request this values, before execution

  • This values will be requested and stored in $env[“values”][<variableName]
  • The variables are only available within custom functions

Example

This will request 3 variable on start, which will result in this form:

You could access these variables with the $env[“value”][“…”] variable. In this example use 

$env["value"]["field_1"]
$env["value"]["field_2"] # "on" if checked
$env["value"]["field_3"]

Trigger

  • Start when a record is created
    • will be executed once every time a new Record is saved
  • Start every time a record is saved
    • will be executed every time you save a record in the module
  • Start only on manual execution
    • won't be executed automatically
      have to executed in sidebar or with the task “execute external Workflow”
  • Start every time a mail is send to the record
    • This Trigger will be started if a new mail will be send to this record or an incoming mail will be related to an entry in the module
      You could use the following environment variables inside a custom function to do something based on this values:
      $env[“email”][“subject”] - contains subject
      $env[“email”][“content”] - contains mailtext
      $env[“email”][“from”] - contains sender
      $env[“email”][“to”] - contains destination
  • Start every time a comment is created
    • This Trigger will be executed if you write a new comment for an entry in the module