Icon class icon_class fas fa-quote-left icon_class_computed fas fa-quote-left Related content uml101 - Activity Diagram - notation - REFERENCE CARD Starting an Action that has an InputPin Starting an Action that has an InputPin with multiplicity Starting an Action that has a ControlPin Starting an Action that has a ValuePin - LIMITED SUPPORT Source Unified Modeling Language 2.5.1 Copyright information About Object Management Group copyright in text extracts quoted from OMG specifications for educational purposes Snippet kind INFO UML keywords Activity Activity Diagram Action Pin InputPin OutputPin Action::/input Action::/output multiplicity Type Previous snippet Full quote An Action may accept inputs and produce outputs, as specified by InputPins and OutputPins of the Action, respectively. Each Pin on an Action specifies the type and multiplicity for a specific input or output of that Action. Next snippet Related snippets Pins are used to specify the inputs and outputs for Actions. Action::/input : InputPin [0..*] ... The ordered set of InputPins representing the inputs to the Action. Action::/output : OutputPin [0..*] ... The ordered set of OutputPins representing outputs from the Action. Related snippets (backlinks) An InputPin is a Pin that holds input values to be consumed by its Action. An Action cannot start execution if one of its InputPins has fewer values than the lower multiplicity of that InputPin. The upper multiplicity determines the maximum number of values that can be consumed from an InputPin by a single execution of its Action. Tokens consumed by an Action are immediately removed from its InputPins when the action begins an execution (except in some cases for StructuredActivityNodes, where tokens may remain on InputPins during the Action execution ...) An OutputPin is a Pin that holds output values produced by an Action. For each execution, an Action cannot terminate itself unless it can put at least as many values into its outputs as required by the multiplicity lower bounds on those OutputPins. Values that may remain on the OutputPins from previous executions are not... An Action may not put more values into an output in a single execution than the [upper] multiplicity of that OutputPin. ValuePins and ActionInputPins are InputPins, but are not used in the determination of whether an Action is enabled for execution. If an Action has no other way to start execution, simply having ValuePins or ActionInputPins for its inputs will not enable.. When the Action is enabled by other means, values are computed as specified for the ValuePins and ActionInputPins owned by an Action, and the results are provided as inputs to the Action when it begins execution. A ValuePin provides a value by evaluating a ValueSpecification ... When the Action is enabled by other means, the ValueSpecifiation of the ValuePin is evaluated, and the result is provided as an input to the Action when it begins execution. Visit also Visit also (backlinks) Flags
