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Defining Actions

On the Actions tab, you can create and describe one or more actions associated with a service connector.

The following image shows the

Actions

tab:

Choose the row you want to edit and then enter the following information in the Action details tab:

Click +
to add a new row.

Action Name

: Enter the name that appears in lists when referencing this action in service connectors and connections. The name must start with a letter or number, and can contain only alphanumeric characters, spaces, and underscores (_). This is a required field.

Category

: If you have many service connectors, each with multiple actions, you can create categories to help users navigate within

processes

Fail on HTTP error

: Check this option if you want Process Designer to acknowledge that an error occurred when you send a request to a server using this action. For more information see Checking for HTTP Errors.

Max Redirects

: Specify the maximum number of redirects that an action can make. When an action accesses an endpoint, the endpoint might redirect the action to another endpoint. Enter a value to control the number of redirects.

The default

Max Redirects

value is 100.

Enter

to disable redirects.

For example, if you enter

, the service connector action makes a maximum of three redirects and receives three redirect responses from the endpoint. If the endpoint requests a fourth redirect response, you see an error message.

Request Timeout in seconds

: Configure the timeout duration in seconds after which the service request gets timed out. The value that you configure becomes the maximum duration that a client is expected to wait for a response from the server after a successful connection has been established. When a service request gets timed out, an HTTP 500 internal server error message appears.

Preemptive Auth

: Sends authentication details, that is, user credentials, along with a request to an endpoint. Select

Preemptive Auth

when you know that an endpoint requires authentication. If you do not select

Preemptive Auth

and the endpoint requires authentication, the following events occur:

The service connector sends a request to the endpoint.

The endpoint requests authentication.

The service connector sends user credentials to the endpoint.

If you select

Preemptive Auth

and the endpoint requires authentication, you avoid an extra request.