6 - Setting up your Action

📖 Task Introduction

An Action is composed of three primary components: Parameters, Rules, and Submission criteria (elsewhere known as inputs, logic, and validations). This task sets up your Action and prepares you to configure these three components.

A clickable, visual depiction of these steps is provided at the bottom of this task for convenience.

🔨 Task Instructions

1. Open your flight alert object type in OMA to the Overview tab.

2. Click the ⊕ Create new button at the bottom of the Action Types block on the right.

3. Apply the following settings to to your Create a new Action Type window:

   • Action type
     • Object type: Leave your [yourName] Flight Alert
     • Object actions: Leave it to ✎ Modify
   • Mapping
     • Property:
       • Priority and map it to Priority
       • Comment and map it to Comment
   • Metadata
     • Action type name: [yourName] Update Flight Alert Priority (e.g., [jmeier] Update Flight Alert Priority)
   • Security
     • User:
       • Leave this as yourself

4. Click the green Create button in the bottom right of the window.