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Gate Inputs

Gating holds a number of transactions before processing each transaction individually. When a gating condition is met, the transaction at the head of the queue is allowed to enter the activity. For example, shipping companies send all packages to a central processing facility that holds the packages until a certain time, then each package is then processed and sent to its destination.

If a Gate By Expression uses Transaction-location attributes but not attributes with other locations, then each transaction in the queue will be evaluated separately and will not block evaluation of transactions behind it in the queue.

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