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Execute Action#

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This task executes a MES Action Rule, mapped to a MES DEE action. This task is useful when you intend do operations on the MES side and require the use of multiple/specific MES services with minimal network traffic and inside the same transaction scope.

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Inputs#

Name Data Type Description
action String Name of the action
inputs Object Object with the inputs for the action
<custom list> <custom> Inputs for the action
Activate any Executes the action in MES

Outputs#

Name Data Type Description
outputs Object Object with the outputs of the action
<custom list> <custom> Outputs of the action
Success Boolean If there was no problem emits a true
Error Error Error that occurred during the processing of this task

Settings#

On the General Tab, you have the usual settings and the following settings:

Name Data Type Default Description
Rule Rule Name of MES Rule to be invoked

Screenshot showing a settings page with an action labeled "Execute Action Sewing".

On the Inputs Tab, there are the following settings:

Name Data Type Default Description
Name String An input name
Type Long
Decimal
DateTime
Boolean
String
Integer		 The type of the input
Collection Type None
Array
Map

Screenshot showing settings options for collection type.

On the Outputs Tab, there are the following settings:

Name Data Type Default Description
Name String An output name
Type Long
Decimal
DateTime
Boolean
String
Integer		 The type of the output
Collection Type None
Array
`Map

Screenshot showing a settings page with options for collection type, including "None", "Array", and "Map".

Behavior#

This task executes a MES Rule which is mapped to a MES DEE action. It loads the corresponding MES Rule and MES DEE action and executes it with the given inputs. After executing it, it emits all the DEE outputs and the individual outputs.

Note

A MES Rule is a reusable object that maps to a DEE rule used to evaluate or process something.

Note

MES DEE Actions are soft-rules defined in C# which are loaded and compiled into memory and executed during runtime.

Note

The inputs and outputs object should be an array with objects with a name string, a type of type complexValueType with at least the type defined (here type is a numeric value see enum PropertyValueType).

Remarks#

For the MES Rule to be visible to the settings it needs to be of classification ConnectIoT. It's advisable to use MES DEEs to make calls to MES services instead of the Execute Service task, because it will have a lesser load impact in the MES Service calls load and therefore on the overall Connect IoT performance. Also, the execution context of the entire action shares the same transaction.