This article describes what a console action does and what properties you can set on the console action.

The console action is an action that prints data to either the standard out (stdout) or standard error (stderr). The console action can be used for notification at any point in the flow chart.

To configure the console action in the designer, drag the console action on to the workspace from the Core section of the Action list. To view the console action's properties simply click on the action.



In the console actions action properties double click on the blank box across from Message, a message box will show up where you can type in your message. The message box apart from supporting plain text also supports variable substitution. For example if you are using the variable "i" in your flow chart and would like to print out "i" in the console action use the following:

${i}

The output of console action is redirected to the standard out of where you initialized your engine. So, if you started your engine through the provided start script the output would show up in the console where you started the engine. If you started your engine inside of an application server, the output would be sent to where you have redirected the standard out of your application server.