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:
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