Perform or Edit Action (Specified Component)

A user may perform a new action on an existing component in one of two ways:

• by specifying the action type first, and then the full UUID of the component on which the action is to performed
• by specifying the component first (via its full UUID), and then the action type to be performed on that component

This Wiki article describes the second of these options, with the first one detailed here.

A new action of a particular action type can be directly performed on a specified component by pressing the corresponding green button, labelled by the action type's name, at the bottom of the component's information page.

The user-defined information in a particular action record - that is, the information that was entered into the action's type form during its initial performance - may be edited at any time, and as many times as desired, by pressing the yellow [Edit Action] button found on that action's information page.

Both of these activities share the same interface page, which looks similar to the following:

This is also the same page that the user will eventually end up at when performing an action on an unspecified component.

The action's type, as well as the associated component's full UUID and name (if available from its user-defined information), are all displayed at the top of the page - please note that these cannot be changed. Below this, the red-outlined form indicates the action type form where user-defined information about the action should be entered, with its specific layout being dependent on the action type. If this page is being used to edit an action's information, the fields in the type form will be pre-populated with any existing user-defined information already present in the action record. Otherwise, the fields will begin with their default values.

Required fields in the type form (that is, those which must be filled before the record can be saved into the database) will be indicated by a red asterisk next to the field's label. Fields with a white background can be changed directly by the user, whereas those with a grey background cannot - these will be automatically populated by the interface based on information entered elsewhere in the type form.

Once all desired information has been entered into the type form and/or all changes have been made, the user must press the green [Submit Action Record] button at the bottom of the type form to save the action into the database. If the button is faded out and does nothing if pressed, this indicates that not all required information fields have been filled. Upon a successful submission, the user will then be automatically redirected to the action's information page.