What Are Inline Actions?

An inline action is an action that you define at the point of use and do not save by name in the catalog. Instead, it is saved as part of the analysis, dashboard page, agent, scorecard objective, scorecard initiative, or KPI.

An inline action is automatically deleted when the analysis, dashboard page, agent, scorecard objective, scorecard initiative, or KPI that contains it is deleted. This simplifies catalog management for actions that make sense only within particular BI content.

For example, suppose that you are designing a dashboard page and want to invoke an EJB that you plan to use only once. You can create an action that invokes the EJB at that point and then add it to the page. When you save the dashboard, the action is saved with it.

You create an inline action when you:

• Create or edit an agent and add a new action to run when the agents finishes.

  For information, see "Adding Actions to Agents."

• Edit a dashboard page and add a new action to the page using an action link or an action link menu.

  For information see "About Adding Actions to Dashboard Pages."

• Create or edit an analysis and add a new action to a column heading, column value, or hierarchy level value using an action link.

  For information, see "Adding Actions to Analyses."

• Create or edit a KPI and add a new action to the KPI using an action link.

  For information, see "Adding Actions to KPIs."

• Create or edit an initiative or objective in a scorecard and add a new action to the initiative or objective using an action link.

  For information, see "Adding Actions to Initiatives and Objectives in Scorecards."