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Linking the Two Steps Manually
When you draw links manually in the workspace with your mouse, you can start and end the link at a variety of locations on any edges of the steps.
Manually adding a link from one step to another automatically affects the information in the Next Steps tab of the Edit Step dialog box for the step being transitioned from. The name of the step being transitioned to is added to the list of steps for the <otherwise> value.
The <otherwise> value specifies the steps to which the item is linked (and, therefore, the values to which the item can transition) when no conditions exist or no conditions are met.
When the link between two steps is created solely because the next step is available only as a setting for <otherwise>, the link is not dotted. That transition is unconditional, even if there are conditional links also originating from the first of the two steps.
To manually create a link from one step to another, do one of the following in the workspace:
- Click the edge of a step. This immediately links the selected step with the step closest to it, unless that step is the entry step.
- Click-and-drag a link from the edge of one step to the edge of the next. When you release the mouse button, the link appears. Again, you cannot drag a link to the entry step.
