Manage chain events

To perform tasks within a chain, such as to enable approvals or ensure valid inputs, you can add a chain event:

• Set dynamic chain variables
• Set conditional logic
• Enable an approval workflow
• Upload files
• Force a result condition
• Pause a chain
• Run a chain within another chain
• Set result text to the output of a chain or its command or group

You can also add trigger events to prompt for inputs when a chain starts or automatically run a chain based on activity in a connected solution:

• Prompt for inputs when a chain runs
• Run a chain based on a BlackLine Journal Service event
• Run a chain based on activity in a file directory
• Run a chain based on an HTTP POST request

Add a chain event

1. In the chain, click Chain Events event, and move the event to the canvas.
2. Drag a link to the event from its preceding node.
3. Select the node, and click Edit create.
4. Set up the event:
   • Set Dynamic Chain Variable
   • Conditional
   • Approval
   • Runtime File Upload
   • Set Chain Result
   • Pause Chain
   • Run Chain
   • Set Result Text

Add a trigger event

Note: A chain can have only one trigger event.

1. In the chain, click Trigger Event play_for_work, and move the event to Start.
   
2. Select the node, and click Edit create.
3. Set up the trigger event:
   • Runtime Inputs
   • BlackLine Journal Service
   • File Events
   • HTTP Webhooks

Edit an event

To update an event's setup, select its node in the chain, and click its Edit create.

Delete an event

To remove an event from a chain, select is node, and click its Delete delete .