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The Output node provides an out terminal for an embedded message flow (a subflow). You can use a subflow to provide a common destination for output messages.
You must use an Output node to provide the out terminal to a subflow; you cannot use a standard output node (a built-in output node such as MQOutput, or a user-defined output node).
You can include one or more Output nodes in a subflow. Each one that you include provides a terminal through which you can propagate messages to subsequent nodes in the message flow in which you include the subflow.
The Output node is represented in the workbench by the following icon:
When you select and include a subflow in a message flow, it is represented by the icon:
When you include the subflow in a message flow, this icon exhibits a terminal for each Output node that you included in the subflow, and the name of the terminal (which you can see when you hover over it) matches the name of that instance of the Output node. Give your Output nodes meaningful names, you can easily recognize them when you use their corresponding terminal on the subflow node in your message flow.
When you have put an instance of the Output node into a message flow, you can configure it by giving it a name.
Right-click the node in the editor view and select Properties. The Description properties of the node are displayed.
Enter a short description, a long description, or both.
Click Apply to make the changes to the Input node without closing the properties dialog, or click OK to apply the changes and close the properties dialog.
Click Cancel to close the dialog and discard all the changes that you have made to the properties.
The Output node terminals are described in the following table.
Terminal | Description |
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In | The output terminal that defines an out terminal for the subflow. |
The following table describes the node properties; the column headed M indicates whether the property is mandatory (marked with an asterisk on the properties dialog if you must enter a value when no default is defined), the column headed C indicates whether the property is configurable (you can change the value when you add the message flow to the bar file to deploy it).
The Output node Description properties are described in the following table.
Property | M | C | Default | Description |
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Short Description | No | No | A brief description of the node. | |
Long Description | No | No | Text that describes the purpose of the node in the message flow. |
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