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10. Integration - Creating custom workflow actions

This video covers creating a new workflow action for use in the visual workflow modeller. This sample leverages the integration to an external system to pull data into the workflow system to make decisions in business processes based on information held in ShareDo and in your external systems.

Key moments

00:00 Recap and overview of demo scenario
02:25 How to build the scenario
02:54 What the different Visual Workflow scaffolding's do
06:03 Scaffolding the workflow step (manifest, template, and factory)
06:22 Manifest (wf-action.json)
10:30 Factory
12:18 Template
12:56 Introducing the designer
13:39 Using the scaffolded workflow step
15:00 Editing the scaffolding variables to make the step do something 
21:46 Outlets
22:33 Disposal
23:00 Get model method
24:26 Have a look at the template (super simple view engine instructions)
29:57 Have a look at the manifest and designer (HTML)
36:40 Summary of widget design
37:05 Workflow designer with the new block
39:20 Using the new block in a workflow
48:40 Summary