Action step

The Action step can:

  • Execute JavaScript code.
  • Break out of the loop of a Repeat step.
  • Set the value for a record property. Record properties are defined in the Preprocessor step; see Preprocessor step.
  • Stop the processing of the current record and move on to the next one. Normally an extraction workflow is automatically executed on all records in the source data. By stopping the processing of the current record, you can filter out some records or skip records partially. Note that if the extraction workflow has already extracted some data before it gets stopped, the record containing that partial data will still be stored in the Connect Database; to skip a record entirely, the Action step must occur before any data is extracted for that record.
  • Stop the data mapping. If fields of the current record were already extracted, then those fields are stored as usual, but the rest of the record and any following records are skipped.

The Action step can run multiple specific actions one after the other in order.

Adding an Action step

To add an Action step, right-click on the Steps pane and select Add a Step > Add Action.

Configuring an Action step

For information about how to configure the Action step, see Action step properties.