Decision task replaced by Evaluation task

The decision task is no longer supported in the workflow canvas in Platform 6. Replace it with the Evaluation task.

What should I do?

Since the decision task acts as an evaluator, use the Evaluation task to define a set of conditionals and execute a success or failure transition in the workflow.

The decision task took in a value and matched it to conditionals to determine which task to transition to. In the example below, a decision task takes in a color (string) and matches it to either red, green, or blue to determine which stub task to transition to. Conditionals were evaluated serially, so the first task with all conditions met was selected. If no conditions were met, a default transition was used.

Use the Evaluation task

To achieve the same branching effect, replace decision with a set of Evaluation tasks. For each Evaluation task, place the same condition that was used in the decision task along with a success transition (green) to the target task. A failure transition (purple) moves to the next Evaluation task. A final failure transition from the last Evaluation task creates a default transition to the end of the workflow.

The input sources (operands) for the Evaluation task use the same evaluation criteria as the corresponding condition in the decision task — for example, “Does the color job variable equal the static value red?”