AireFlow Terminology

Subjects

Subjects are the people or things that are being tracked through a workflow. For instance, a patient being admitted may require a workflow where a bed is assigned and initial observations recorded. Each task should be associated with the same Subject.

Workflow Definitions

Workflow definitions can be thought of as templates that describe the structure of a workflow you may want to run at some point in the future. Definitions can contain XPath and Liquid expressions that will be evaluated against any input given upon instantiation. [More details about mapping are available here]({% link _docs/mapping.md %})

Triggers

Triggers allow you to specify when a task should be created. All triggers are based on an event, and there are two main types of event:

• Custom events - An event received via the api (such as a form submission, or any other external activity tha can trigger an api call)
• Task events - Events triggered internally by the lifecycle of a task, such as the task being started, completed, or reassigned.

Tasks

Tasks can be manual, which represent a task that needs to be completed. Manual tasks have a status (New, In Progress, Completed) and can also optionally have state made up of key/value pairs.

The alternative to a manual task is a task that sends an HTTP request or email.