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2.70 If Dialog - General Tab

Use to define conditional behavior for specific activities to decide between the execution of two or more branches.

Only one activity is selected for execution from a set of branches. The if activity consists of a list of one or more conditional branches that are considered for execution in the following order:

if branch
Optional elseif branches
Optional else branches

To add an elseif branch or another else branch, highlight the if activity and click the Add icon.

The first branch whose condition evaluates to true is taken, and its contained activity is performed. If no branch with a condition is taken, the else branch is taken (if present). The if activity is complete when the contained activity of the selected branch completes, or immediately when no condition evaluates to true and no else branch is specified.

Note: The if activity is supported in BPEL projects that support version 2.0 of the BPEL specification. This activity replaces the switch activity that was supported in version 1.1 of the BPEL specification.

For more information about the if activity, see the Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0 Specification at http://www.oasis-open.org.

Element	Description
Name	Enter a name or accept the default value of `Ifnumber`. This name becomes the name for this activity in the designer.
Expression Language	Displays the XPath expression version and BPEL specification version of this BPEL project. This field cannot be edited.
Condition	Click the XPath Expression Builder icon to enter an if condition expression.