Guardrails for Data Models Flashcards
What is Draft Mode?
A setting in Visio, Process Modeler and the Discovery Map that allows users to create and model flows that reference rules and flow actions that are not yet defined or complete.
What are the most common warnings you will encounter during case design.
The most common guardrail warnings you will encounter during case design will be “Caution - Best Practice” warnings – and these cautions will almost always be found on a flow rule.
Will a flow in Draft Mode run in production?
No it will not, it is for development purposes. When the flow is complete, and ready for production, turn off draft mode
Should you try to avoid justifying warnings?
Yes you should.
How do you correct too many shapes
As much as possible, work to resolve this warning.
To remove the warning, consider options for reducing the number of shapes such as creating additional flows – adding “steps” to the case type in the Case Designer - to separate the logic into related units of work.
When a flow has less than fifteen shapes, development and maintenance are easier, because you can more easily see what’s happening in the process and are less likely to make a change in one area of the process that has an adverse impact on another area.
What is an overload of assignments warning?
This caution appears when an assignment shape in the flow has more than five connectors with flow actions.
When an assignment has more than five connectors with flow actions, at runtime, end users are presented with all of those options. As the number of choices increases, the likelihood increases that an end user might choose incorrectly, or spend time thinking over which choice to make — which can affect productivity.
To remove the warning, consider separating some of the flow actions into separate assignments – or
using a screen flow if not already doing so.
Why use best practices?
Adhering to best practices for stage-based case design and conforming to the guardrails for flows lead to
applications that are well designed, straightforward to maintain, and architected to Build for Change.
