Manual Intervention
Description:
Manual Intervention pauses a running workflow and displays a pop-up window so that a user can complete a task, review data, or provide input values before the automation continues. This step is useful in workflows that require human approval, data verification, or manual data entry at specific points. You can configure it to pause for every row, only the first row, or only the last row, and you can define additional fields with default values, dropdowns, and display-only flags to guide the user’s input. The workflow resumes when the user clicks OK or Cancel, and the chosen action is captured in an output status field for downstream logic.
Note: Ignore the following errors in the logs, if the step is used with versions of Process Studio and AutomationEdge previous to v7.5:
- Manual Intervention ERROR WorkflowUtil:501 - Required number of variable arguments for send status to AE Server are 3 in order: ‘String: status, Long: totalProcessedRows, Long: successfulRows’.
- Manual Intervention ERROR BaseStep:3000 - Error while changing Workflow Execution Status: com.automationedge.exception.AEUtilsException: Unexpected error occurred while sending current status to AE Server.
Configurations:
| Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Step Name | Name of the step. This name has to be unique in a single workflow. |
| Display Message | Specify a Display message to appear on the manual intervention pop-up. |
| Process this step for | Choose from the list, 1. Each Row – Will pause for each row 2. First Row – Will pause only for the first row 3. Last Row – Will pause only for the last row |
| Additional Fields: | Provide a tabular list of fields in the workflow stream to be displayed. |
| Display name | Specify a Display name for the fields. This will be a user -friendly name of the field which will be shown at run time for taking input from the end user. |
| Type | Specified field type, possible values are: String, Number, List, Boolean, Date. |
| Format | Specify the format of specific types like Number, Date. |
| Secret | Specify whether field value would be secured or not (true/false). |
| Display Only | Specify whether value of the field is display only or editable by the end-user (true/false). |
| Optional | Specify whether field value is Optional (true/false) |
| List of Values | Type a list of Comma separated values here and at run time these will be converted to a dropdown where the user can choose one of the values. |
| Default Value | Specify a default value for the given field. This can be a previous field or static value. |
| Field name | Specify names of fields to be created (in specific cases, details in Validation section) when the step is run. These fields will be available further in the workflow. If Default Value contains a previous field from drop down and Field name is left blank then field is updated. |
| Tooltip Description | Specify a desired Tooltip Description for the field. |
| Output Field: | |
| Status Field Name | Specify an output fieldname to hold the user action (OK/Cancel) during step execution. The default value is status. |