1) Calling Actions Using Basic Syntax
In the Expert View, a call to an action with no parameters is displayed within the calling action with the following basic syntax:
RunAction ActionName, IterationQuantity
For example, to call the Select Flight action and run it one iteration:
RunAction “Select Flight”, oneIteration
For example, to call the Select Flight action and run it as many iterations as there are rows in the Data Table:
RunAction “Select Flight”, alliterations
For example, to call the Select Flight action and run it four iterations (for the first four rows of the Data Table):
RunAction “Select Flight”, “1-4”
Calling Actions with Parameters (Input parameters are listed before output parameters)
2) An action call with parameters has the following syntax:
RunAction ActionName, IterationQuantity, Parameters
For example, suppose you call Action2 from Action1, and Action2 has one input and one output parameter defined.
The following statement supplies a string value of MyValue for the input parameter and stores the resulting value of the output parameter in a variable called MyVariable.
RunAction “Action2”, oneIteration, “MyValue”, MyVariable
The following statement uses the value defined for Action1’s Axn1_In input action parameter as the value for the input parameter, and stores the resulting value of the output parameter in Action1’s Data Table sheet in a column called Column1_out.
RunAction “Action2”, oneIteration, Parameter(“Axn1_In”), DataTable(“Column1_out”, dtLocalSheet)
In the following example, the first statement calls Action2 using its default input parameter value. The second statement uses the value defined for Action2’s Axn2_out output action parameter as the value for the call to Action3’s input parameter, and stores the resulting value of the output parameter in Action1’s Axn1_out so that the output value is available at the parent action level.
RunAction “Action2”, oneIteration
RunAction “Action3”, oneIteration, Parameter(“Action2”, “Axn2_out”), Parameter(“Axn1_out”)
