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Is greater than or equal
to
the property of the object is greater than or equal to the number specified in the filter.
Contains the property of the object contains the exact text specified in the filter. Unlike the Equals
behavior, other text can surround the matching text.
Does not contain the property of the object does not contain the exact text specified in the filter. Unlike the
Equals behavior, other text can surround the matching text.
Matches pattern uses regular expressions to specify a pattern that the text must match.
Does not match pattern uses regular expressions to specify a pattern that the text must not match
NOTE: You can use the Filter properties for a particular field and relation only once in an activity. For example, if the
filter criteria for a persona include a filter for OS Architecture equals x86_32 then you cannot add another filter for
OS Architecture equals x86_64.
Run Behavior Tab
This tab contains the properties that determine how the activity handles multi-value returned data and what notifications
are sent if the activity fails or runs for an excessive period of time.
Multi-Value Returned Data Behavior
The Get activities retrieve information from another activity or outside source, and can return one or more values in the
returned data. For example, when you use the Get Relationship activity, the data output may contain the set of Network
Connections used by a Persona. By default, the data from the Get activity are passed on as multiple individual outputs.
This invokes the next activity as many times as there are items in the output. Alternatively, you can provide a single
output for the activity by enabling the Flatten option. When you enable this option, choose a formatting option:
Separate with line
breaks
Each item is on a new line. This format is useful for creating human-readable text files for
the output.
Separate with Each item is separated by one or more characters.
Use CSV format All items are in CSV (comma-separated value) format. This format is useful for importing
data into spreadsheets or other applications.
The activity creates a new set of data every time it runs. The Flatten feature does not flatten data across multiple
instances of the same activity.
Returned Data
Returned data is the foundation of a working runbook. It is the data produced as a result of the actions of an activity.
This data is published to an internal data bus that is unique for each runbook. Subsequent activities in the runbook can
subscribe to this data and use it in their configuration. Link conditions also use this information to add decision-making
capabilities to runbooks.
An activity can only subscribe to data from the activities that are linked before it in the runbook. You can use returned
data to automatically populate the property values needed by activities.
Using Returned Data
To use returned data: For a list of the data elements returned by each activity, see the Returned Data tables in the
activity topic.
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