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Specify Flow Properties

Specifying flow properties involves the following two activities related to the destination procedure step:

• specifying the first action by the procedure step
• specifying the command that the destination procedure step should execute

When a transfer or a link flows to an online procedure step that displays a screen, the destination procedure step can begin action in one of the following two ways:

• Display First—The generated system can display the screen or window for the destination step and wait for operator input to begin the logic of the procedure step.
• Execute First—The generated system can execute the logic of the destination procedure step. This results in either the display of the screen or window of the destination step, or the execution of a dialog flow. Links from client procedures to server procedures must be set to Execute First.

Select Display First when the procedure step requires input from the user of the application before procedure step logic can begin.

Select Execute First when the source procedure step provides all of the information required for the destination procedure step to begin processing.