Promoted properties

A promoted property is a message flow node property that has been promoted to the level of the message flow in which it is included.

A message flow contains one or more message flow nodes, each of which is an instance of a message flow type (a built-in node). You can promote the properties of a message flow node to apply to the message flow to which it belongs. If you do this, any user of the message flow can set values for the properties of the nodes in this higher message flow by setting them at the message flow level, without being aware of the message flow's internal structure.

You can promote compatible properties (that is, properties that represent comparable values) from more than one node to the same promoted property; you can then set a single property that affects multiple nodes.

A subset of message flow node properties is also configurable (that is, the properties can be updated at deploy time). You can promote configurable properties: if you do so, the promoted property (which can have a different name from the property or properties that it represents) is the one that is available to update at deploy time. Configurable properties are those associated with system resources, for example queues: they can be set at deploy time by an administrator rather than a message flow developer.

Related concepts
Message flows overview
Deployment overview
Related tasks
Promoting a property
Renaming a promoted property
Removing a promoted property
Converging multiple properties
Editing configurable properties
Related reference
Built-in nodes