The Inbox Query and Inbox Update activity nodes

This section describes activity nodes that can be used to query and update in processes. The Query and Update nodes are grouped with ION activity nodes in Infor Process Designer.

The Query node performs an iterative query against the and retrieves records meeting the specified criteria (a status flag on an ). Optionally, the node can be configured to update the status of retrieved records.

The Update node sets the status on specific records. It is usually used in conjunction with the node when you want the selected records to be saved for updating at a different point in the process.

Here is a simple example that shows how you might use the and Update nodes in a process that identifies Inbox records with errors and changes their status so the records can be reprocessed. The process would include:

• Query node configured to retrieve records with "error" status.

• Update node configured to populate these records as "unprocessed".