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Building Blocks for Parent-Child Process Handling

This section describes building blocks related to parent-child process interaction to support parallel or aggregated tasks in a workflow.

Note: For more information, see the section on Parent and Child Processes.

Start Children

Use this building block to create a node that launches child processes.

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Parent and Child Processes in a Workflow

Signal Children and Wait

Use this building block to create a node that sends a signal key to child processes and waits for a return key. Typically this building block is used to initiate change approvals or other subsequent nodes in the child process.

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Parent and Child Processes in a Workflow

Signal Parent / Signal Parent and Wait

Use these building blocks to create a node in a child process sends a signal key to its parent process.

Note: For more information, see the section on Parent and Child Processes.

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Parent and Child Processes in a Workflow

Wait for Parent

Use this building block to create a node that suspends a child process until its parent process sends a signal key.

Note: For more information, see the section on Parent and Child Processes.

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Parent and Child Processes in a Workflow

Disable User Actions

Use this building block to create a node that terminates incomplete review actions in child processes.

This building block exposes the following parameter:

SourceNodeNames

Specifies the nodes in the child processes that the active review actions you want to end.