Repeat

The Repeat group activity is responsible for repeating the series of grouped activities until the specified condition evaluates to true. The activities are always executed once before checking whether the condition is true. After executing the series of activities, the initial evaluation of the condition is done, and it does not repeat when the condition evaluates as true. The Repeat activity evaluates the loop's conditional statement to determine whether or not more iterations of the loop are required.

General

The General tab has the following fields.

Field Description
Name The name to be displayed as the label for the activity in the process.
Group Type The type of group. The default is Repeat.
Index Name Use this field to specify a name for the index variable.
Note: Select the Global check box to make the index variable available for the activities outside the loop.
Condition The condition ($index) is specified through an XPath expression which can be a literal value. Click the Edit XPath Expression button to set an XPath expression.
Accumulate Output Select this check box to accumulate the output of one of the activities in a group.

The output of the selected activity is accumulated each time the activity is executed.

Output Activity Select the activity from the group of activities for an output reference when executing the loop.
Output Name The name of the list of the accumulated output of the selected activity.
Reset Variables The variable to be reset during each iteration of the Repeat group.

Click the Add icon, and select the variable to be reset.

To delete the variable, click the variable in the Reset Variables field. The Remove icon with a tooltip 'Remove <variable name> ' is displayed. Click the Remove icon to remove the variable from the Reset Variables field.

Description

Provide a short description for the group in this field.

Variables

A group of shared variables. The Container displays the group. This depends on the group selected in Group Type. For example, if the Repeat group is selected in the Group Type field, it displays Repeat in Container. You can add multiple variables of complex or simple type.

You can select from the following available Variable Type options:

  • String
  • Integer
  • Decimal
  • Boolean
  • Date&Time