Can you use a list in an action?

laura-bryant

Good Morning.  I have an action that will do a number of things to an employee if the criteria is met.  Currently it is using a custom group but I don't like that for a number of reasons.  Is it possible to use a list view in an action?  So, I want to create a list view that has all the criteria and run the action on the entire list.  Is this possible?  Also, can an action be scheduled?  

I'm thinking this may need to be moved to an IPA but I want to make sure before I re-create the whole process in IPA.

Thank you.

cleverly

If your action is an instance action, you could select the rows from the list (up to 200 if you chose max pagination) and then execute the instance action against all of them.

Alternatively, you could create a Set action with an instance selection criteria equal to that of your list (so that you are selecting the same set of records) and just invoke it.  Set actions can be scheduled as well.

See the section on Actions in the LPL Reference Guide beginning on page 59.  The additional syntax applicable to Set actions is noted in the comments (i.e., "// valid on Set actions only").