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The Start step indicates the beginning of the workflow. Every workflow must have exactly one Start step, which has zero (0) inputs and one (1) output. Its properties are listed in the table below.

Property

Description

Name

The step name.

Check Out Records

Whether to check out the records at beginning of job (Yes/No).

Duration Timeout

The length of time allocated to the job.

CC: Notification

In addition to the assignee, whom to notify via email when the workflow timeout has expired ([Owner] / [Launcher] / list of users).

Send Next Step

Whether just the owner or the final assignee can send to the next step when a step is complete ([Owner] / [Launcher] / [Anyone]).

Split Job

Whether any assignee or just the owner or launcher can split the job into multiple subjobs ([Owner] / [Launcher] / [Anyone]).

Note

When a workflow receives checked out records from a cascaded job it disregards its own Check Out Records property.

 

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