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Create Procedures

To create a procedure, use the Edit and Add Procedure commands, or use the Copy command to create a new procedure from an existing one. Each of these activities is described in the following sections.

Ordinarily, you create procedures to implement processes that result from Analysis. You also can create procedures (called designer-added procedures) that improve the implementation of the business system, but are not a result of Analysis. The most common example of a designer-added procedure is a menu that calls other procedures, each of which implements one or more processes.

Note: When a designer-added procedure is required to perform CREATE, READ, UPDATE, or DELETE actions on an entity type, it indicates that an elementary process was not defined during Analysis. You can generate Create, Read, Update, and Delete logic automatically using Procedure Synthesis. Review the activity model before adding a designer-added procedure that performs Create, Read, Update, or Delete.