UpdateEvent Activity

Every major action in the system (Add a Product, Receive Message from DataPool, Upload Datasource, and so on) creates an EVENT. The steps of the event can be viewed from EventLog.

In most cases, you update an event in the following cases:

  • When you receive a document, you might now have more information about the purpose of the Event than when the event was first created. For example, the receiver receives a document from a trading partner, and until you translate the document into MLXML you do not know what the exact content of the document is. After you have translated it, then you know that it is a “Publish Notification”.
  • When the Event is complete, you want to indicate that the event is now “Done” and whether it failed or succeeded. This will usually be the last step done by the workflow.