AppFacet Actions

In AppFacet an Action represents:

Triggering an external non-thing event like sending an email, Tweet, triggering a build etc.
Receiving data from external sources such as a database update

Here are some examples:

Send an Email

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Action(Name: "EmailAction", documentation: "Send Email"): 
  Workflow(Limit: "1", Live: "1", Timeout: "0"): 
    Task(Name: "Main", while: "true"): 
      Event(Name: "Argument", as: "ActionArgument")
      Invoke(Name: "ReadValue", waitFor: "Argument", post: "smtp://[%:Event.Argument.Hostname.Value:%]", Hostname: "[%:Event.Argument.Hostname.Value:%]"):
        Message:
          Value:
            Port: 
              [%:Event.Argument.Port.Value:%]
            Username: 
              [%:Event.Argument.Username.Value:%]
            Password: 
              [%:Event.Argument.Password.Value:%]
            From: 
              [%:Event.Argument.From.Value:%]
            To: 
              [%:Event.Argument.To.Value:%]
            CC: 
              [%:Event.Argument.CC.Value:%]
            Subject: 
              [%:Event.Argument.Subject.Value:%]
            Body: 
              [%:Event.Argument.Body.Value:%]
            StartTLS: 
              [%:Event.Argument.StartTLS.Value:%]

Start Simulation by Executing External Script

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Action(Name: "StartSimulatorAction", Documentation: "Start the simulator"): 
  Workflow(Limit: "1", Live: "1", Timeout: "-1"): 
    Task(Name: "Main"): 
      StartOsWindows:
        StartProcess.exe cmd.exe "/K c:\Users\Dev\Documents\atomiton\bitbucket\tqlsimulator\build\install\TQLSimulator\bin\TQLSimulator.bat local -runAsFleetEventsGen eventOptions=10"
      StartOsUnix:
        bash config/startupscript.sh
      StartOsMac:
        [:CmdOsUnix:]
      StopOsWindows:
        TaskKill.exe /PID [%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/Known/text():%]
      StopOsUnix:
        kill [%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/Known/text():%]
      StopOsMac:
        [:CmdOsUnix:]
      Event(Name: "Argument", as: "ActionArgument")
      Invoke(Name: "InvokeScript", waitFor: "ActionArgument", skip-if: "[%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/starts-with(Value, 'off'):%]"):
        execute: 
          [:Start[:OsTag:]:]
      Output(Name: "ActionResult"): 
        Value:
          currentSimulatorState: 
            [%:Invoke/InvokeScript/Message/Value/text():%]