MERGEFORM Workflow Application

Overview

The MERGEFORM workflow application takes multiple form data files and merges them into one file. It can also merge form archives into a target form archive by merging the HTML sections from both files.

How it works

All parameters are optional, and parameter names can be set by the process designer. To copy a data from one to another, the only action required is to set the default value as the data to copy and set the data into which you want to retrieve it. The parameters’ directions must be INOUT. There is no limit to the number of parameters.

Parameters

Required parameters

Parameter	Type	Direction	Description
FORM_DATA	File	INOUT	The merge target FORM_DATA. All FORM_DATA_SOURCE parameters will merge into this parameter’s default value (IN) and will update the specified data (OUT) with the result.
FORM_DATA_SOURCE1	File	IN	Specific form data to merge into the target form data.
FORM_FIELDS_MERGE1	Text	IN	The fields to merge from FORM_DATA_SOURCE1 to FORM_DATA, separated by commas. It supports the asterisk (*) wildcard character to select all fields starting with the prefix. Note: If you don’t specify a FORM_FIELDS_MERGE[N] parameter, all of the fields in FORM_DATA_SOURCE[N] will be merged.

Optional parameters

Parameter	Type	Direction	Description
FORM_DATA_SOURCE[2..N]	File	IN	Specific form data to merge into the target form data.
FORM_FIELDS_MERGE[2..N]	Text	IN	The fields to merge from FORM_DATA_SOURCE[2..N] to FORM_DATA. It also supports the wildcard character.
FORM_ARCHIVE	File	INOUT	The merge target FORM_ARCHIVE. All FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE parameters will merge into this parameter’s default value (IN) and will update the specified data (OUT) with the result.
FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE[1..N]	File	IN	Specific form archive to merge into the target form archive.
FORM_FIELDS_ARCHIVE[1..N]	Text	IN	Section IDs to merge from FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE[1..N] to FORM_ARCHIVE, separated by commas. It does not support the asterisk wildcard parameter; instead, you must specify the exact IDs of each section to merge.

Examples of parameters

Parameter	Type	Direction	Description
FORM_DATA	File	INOUT	Send value of FORM_DATA Receive value of FORM_DATA
FORM_DATA_SOURCE1	File	IN	Send value of FORM_DATA_VALIDATES_ACCOUNTING
FORM_FIELDS_MERGE1	Text	IN	Send value of ACCOUNT_*
FORM_DATA_SOURCE2	File	IN	Send value of FORM_DATA_VALIDATES_SALES
FORM_FIELDS_MERGE2	Text	IN	Send value of SALES_DECISION,SALES_COMMENT
FORM_ARCHIVE	File	INOUT	Send value of FORM_ARCHIVE Receive value into FORM_ARCHIVE
FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE1	File	IN	Send value of FORM_DATA_VALIDATES_ACCOUNTING
FORM_FIELDS_ARCHIVE1	Text	IN	Send value of ACCOUNT
FORM_ARCHIVE_SOURCE2	File	IN	Send value of FORM_ARCHIVE_VALIDATES_SALES
FORM_FIELDS_ARCHIVE2	File	IN	Send value of SALES