Mesh Workflow Controls

Mesh Workflow Controls determine the execution of Mesh Workflow Steps based on the set of defined controls. Mesh Workflow Controls allow you to provide inputs for executing the respective Mesh Workflow Steps. Each Mesh Workflow Step has one or more specific controls that are mandatory or optional. When you define a Mesh Workflow Step, the mandatory controls are automatically added. You should define the optional controls for the Step as per your requirement.

Right-click options available in Mesh Controls are:

  • Rename: Allows you to rename the mesh workflow controls.

  • Delete: Allows you to delete the mesh workflow controls.

Each Control has the following options in its Details view:

General

  • Control Type: Displays the selected control type.

Scope

  • Define By: Allows you to define the input to the selected control. The available options are Value and Outcome.

    • Value: Allows you to set manually the value of the Scoping Method and Scoping Pattern.

    • Outcome: Allows you to select the existing scoped outcomes from the previous steps as input.

  • Scoping Method: Allows you to select the entities for the selected control. The available options are:

    • Part: Allows you to select Parts for defining the scope of the control.

    • Label: Allows you to select Labels for defining the scope of the control.

    • Zone: Allows you to select Zones for defining the scope of the control.

  • Scoping Pattern: Allows you to specify the name pattern to get the selected Scoping Method with the provided name pattern. Scoping Pattern supports the Regular Expression. The following patterns are supported:

    Expression Description Example
    .*Matches any number of any characters including none.

    can.* matches all strings beginning with "can".

    can, cane, candle, cancel, and so on

    .*canmatches all strings ending with "can".

    Glucan, decan, scan, and so on.

    ?Matches exactly one character. ?an matches "can," "tan," "man," "ran," and so on.
    [...]Matches one character from the characters given in brackets. A pair of characters separated by a hyphen denotes a range of characters to be matched.

    [ct]an matches "can" or "tan.

    Can[0-5] matches "Can0," "Can1," "Can2," "Can3," "Can4," and "Can5"

    Can[^2-3] matches "Can1" but does not match "Can2" or "Can3."

    (?!...)Negative lookahead. Matches any string that does not have the provided string.

    (?!Can).* matches any string that does not begin with "Can".

    (?!Can.*|bin.*).* matches any string that does not begin with "Can" or bin.

    (?!.*can$).* matches all strings that do not end with "can".

    |

    Separates multiple names while scoping.

    Separates multiple expressions to match.

    		Can|Decan|scan matches "Can," any string starting with "Decan," and any string containing "scan."

    Can|hole.*|.*pipe matches "Can," any string starting with "hole," and any string ending with "pipe."

    Note:  You should always use \ character with special characters like {},[],(),^,$,.,|,*,+,?,\ . For more information, refer Regular Expression .