Artifact shapes are used to indicate data flow pattens.

The following Artifact shapes are included in the Toolbox:

• Data
• EJM Task Response
• EJM Run Task

Fork

This Gateway shape allows you to indicate the start of parallel processing of the workflows.
The Name property of this shape defaults to Fork.

Join

This Gateway shape allows you to indicate that waiting is required until parallel workflows complete before proceeding to the next action.
The Name property of this shape defaults to Join.

Decision

This Gateway shape allows you to determine what the next step is based on a specific condition being true or false.
The following table describes the shape's properties.

Decision Shape has the following usage best practices:

1. The branches of the Decision shape should not converge later, but should represent independent execution paths leading to the ‘end’ shape.

The example of a WRONG scenario below merges the two branches into one shape :

The CORRECT way to do this is to duplicate the second decision shape, as shown in the next picture:

      2. Neither branch of the Decision shape should lead directly to the “End” shape. For such scenario it is better to use “Condition To Execute” property of the shape, and get rid of the Decision shape altogether.

WRONG:

CORRECT: