Then and Action Cells
Whether you're looking at the Then cell of an If/Then rule, or the Action cells of a more complex Decision Table, Actions are what happen when the Conditions preceding them are true. Let's take a look at the Actions available in Sliderule
Change Workflow Outcome
Every time a workflow runs, it returns an Outcome (Approve
, Reject
, Investigate
) as well as any optional Custom variables. By default, your workflow will return an Approve
outcome, unless an Action cell calls the Reject
or Investigate
keywords.
When you call Reject
or Investigate
, the Workflow will stop executing immediately. Investigate
outcomes create Alerts that land in the Inbox tab for triage.
Any time you call Reject
or Investigate
you'll need to provide a Reason String, to make it easier for other folks on your team to understand what's happening. For example:

Set Custom Variables
Many workflows involve calculating variables, for example risk scores, risk tiers, or interest rates. You can simply type a new variable name and set it equal to a string, number, or boolean (true/false).

This variable will then be available under autocomplete to use in subsequent rules. You can even change the variable value in future rules, for example to increase a score set previously.

Breakout to new path
You can jump to other branches of a Workflow using a breakout rule.

You can create a new breakout rules by either dragging new logic blocks onto the graph below the default path, or by adding the breakout
keyword to the Then/Action cell of one of your rules

Complex Actions
You can use the and
keyword to link multiple actions together. For example:

Flags
Finally, some users like to mark critical rules to form a list of flags that get returned in each Workflow response. We support this using the flag_rule
keyword.

If this rule goes off during an execution, you'd expect to see the name of this rule listed in an array of Flags returned by the Workflow.

Updated 9 months ago