11 - Setting up your Action

📖 Task Introduction

The next action adds some complexity on top of the pattern you just completed. You want to enable your operations analysts to assign flight alerts for further work. Those assignments, however, can only be made by users who don’t belong to a particular group defined in Foundry’s authentication and authorization service, Multipass.

🔨 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:
       • Assignee and map it to Assignee
       • Status and map it to, click on Status, select Static value and then enter Assigned in the Static value field
   • Metadata
     • Action type name: [yourName] Assign Flight Alert (e.g., [jmeier] Assign Flight Alert)
   • Security
     • User:
       • Leave this as yourself

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