Run Workflow

Activity Description

Runs a child workflow within the current one. When running a few concurrent workflows, you can use a variable's value retrieved by a parallel workflow's activity. When doing so, make sure to use the value only after the activity has been performed; otherwise no value is retrieved. In addition, you can run the nested (child) workflow with variables, which is ideal when the variable in the parent workflow is dynamic – as is the case when running a loop – and those changes need to be captured and used in the child workflow as it runs in the background.

Settings

• Workflow Name - The child workflow to run (the name of the Run Workflow activity cannot be identical to the name of the workflow executed by the activity).
• Variables - If desired, set variables to be used when the selected child workflow is executed. The Name is the variable's name to be referenced (the name must differ from the activity's name and must start with a letter and contain only the A-Z, a-z, 0-9 characters). The Value is the variable's value - a constant value or another variable (variable names must follow the convention %Variable%). Note that it is not possible to send both text and a variable in the same field (i.e., getrowscount(%tablename%)).
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  The variable passed to the child workflow is a copy of the variable in the parent workflow, meaning that changes made to the variable in the child workflow will not be reflected in the parent workflow.

• Run in Background – Check to run both workflows at the same time. Uncheck to wait for the parent workflow to wait for the child workflow's termination before continuing to the next activity.