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About Setting the Workflow Mode Property

This topic describes how the workflow mode determines the types of workflow steps a workflow process can contain.

Setting Workflow Mode With a Wait Step and a User Interact Step

A workflow process that includes a User Interact step must have the workflow's mode property set to Interactive Flow. Such a flow can contain Wait steps as long as they wait for an event, or do not wait. For example, a dummy Wait step is used to assign process property values.

A workflow process with a Wait step is a Long Running Flow only when the Wait step waits for a period of time, after which the workflow must be resumed from the Workflow Process Manager. In other cases, if the Wait step waits for a run-time event in the same user session, the flow is not a long-running workflow. This type of workflow can contain User Interact steps, which make it an interactive workflow.

Setting Workflow Mode With a Sub Process Step

A main process can call multiple subprocesses, but the workflow mode of the main process must be consistent with the workflow mode for a subprocess called by the main process.

Table 24 describes the allowed pairings of main process and subprocess mode types.