Tooltip for in-Arguments (Processes) - and accepted Format

Hi all

There are scenarios where you users trigger jobs for processes on-demand via the “Processes” product/service in the Automation Cloud. With “in-Arguments” we can allow the users to bring specific content into the automation. Here’s a simple process that I used to demonstrate this:

… with an in-Argument:

What’s often a helpful benefit is to set a tooltip in the “design properties” - the same applies for tooltips in custom activities. Here’s an example:

However, these tooltips are not shown in the “Processes” card. They could be super helpful in providing accepted/expected formats and giving guidance to the users triggering the automation. Arguments can be at least set to “required”, that’s already helpful in forcing them to provide an input:

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However, they might not know what format is required. Is it possible to bring the Design Properties/tooltip onto the “Processes” card for each in-Argument?

Moreover, what would be really interesting is to allow an in-Argument (or generally speaking also Variables) only to get content of a specific format (i.e. RegEx Pattern). Not sure how you’d handle that, or if that’d need to be a custom Argument/Variable type in order to achieve this? That way you could force the users to input only text in the desired format, i.e.:

  • dd.mm.yyyy
  • 5-digits-text
  • or separated “arrays” such as: val1;val2

Happy to hear your thoughts on this!

Cheers
Roman

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