{"id":5002,"date":"2013-10-05T05:47:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/?p=5002"},"modified":"2020-04-27T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:19:09","slug":"how-to-add-an-alternate-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/5002\/how-to-add-an-alternate-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add an Alternate Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Start ScreenSteps Content --><\/p>\n<div class=\"LessonContent\">\n<div class=\"LessonSummary\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Overview<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p>Alternate Flows are needed to handle exception conditions that force the system to deviate from its <strong>Main Success Scenario<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This article describes the procedure to add an Alternate Flow in the main Flow-of-Events in a Use Case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Who should read this?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<ul>\n<li>TopTeam Users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Open a Use Case record in which you want to add an alternate flow<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/media_1587985344523-1.png\" alt=\"media_1587985344523-1.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"506\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Place the cursor at the step from which you want to create an alternate flow and right-click to open the pop-up menu<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/media_1378213753683-1.png\" alt=\"media_1378213753683-1.png\" width=\"725\" height=\"615\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Add Alternate Flow window opens<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/media_1378214165597-1.png\" alt=\"media_1378214165597-1.png\" width=\"725\" height=\"615\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Add an Alternate Flow<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/media_1378279036468-1.png\" alt=\"media_1378279036468-1.png\" width=\"725\" height=\"615\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Alternate Flow is added to the Use Case steps<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/media_1378286451923-1.png\" alt=\"media_1378286451923-1.png\" width=\"725\" height=\"615\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p>Add steps to the Alternate Flow so that it ends with either Success or Failure.<br \/>\nYou may also add multiple alternate flows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/6167\/how-to-arrange-steps-in-an-alternate-flow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to arrange Steps in an Alternate <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/3183\/video-getting-started-with-use-case-flow-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video \u2013 Getting Started with Use Case Flows Editor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p>Revised: April 27th, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End ScreenSteps Content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Alternate Flows are needed to handle exception conditions that force the system to deviate from its Main Success Scenario. This article describes the procedure to add an Alternate Flow in the main Flow-of-Events in a Use Case. Who should read this? TopTeam Users Open a Use Case record in which you want to add an alternate flow Place the cursor at the step from which you want to create an alternate flow and right-click to open the pop-up menu The Add Alternate Flow window opens Add an Alternate Flow The Alternate Flow is added to the Use Case steps <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-5002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-use-case-modeling","tag-use-cases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoaNA-1iG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50207,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions\/50207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}