Using Process Synthesis › How to Create a Process Logic Diagram › Identify Required Actions

Identify Required Actions

In this step, you annotate the Data Model with the five entity actions (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE, and LIST (READ EACH)). The entity actions are performed on occurrences of the identified entity types.

The logic for the Create Customer Order process should reflect the following actions:

• CREATE CUSTOMER ORDER
• READ CUSTOMER
• READ PRODUCT and ASSOCIATE
• CREATE CUSTOMER ORDER LINE

You also determine which actions on attributes and relationships of the affected entity types are used and how. This gives you an idea of the three types of actions needed in the process logic:

• Required SET actions (1) that assign values to attributes in CREATE and UPDATE action statements. A CREATE action must SET each mandatory attribute of the subject entity type. In addition, it can SET optional attributes as required by the process.
• Required ASSOCIATE (2) and DISASSOCIATE (3) actions that establish and eliminate pairings in the CREATE action statements.