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Right-click on a shape and choose Properties. Or, with the shape selected, on the Edit menu, choose Properties to open the Properties dialog box.

Decisions branch the transaction into different paths based on statistical percentages or attributes. Named outputs have the option to send to more than one branch if conditional. Available outputs will go to the first available downstream shape based on specific rules.

All Output

Transactions flow down all outputs unconditionally.

Decision Output

Element	Description
Case Text	Predefined paths: TrueFalse–Two cases: False (equal to 0) and True (1). YesNo–Two cases: No (equal to 0) and Yes (1). Other–Unlimited cases. You can edit labels. Click the button to create and modify attribute types used to define case labels.
Statistical	Percentage weighting defines the probability that transaction flow takes a particular path.
Expression	Uses an expression to determine the output path. For example, an attribute returns a value or the expression evaluation returns false (equal to 0) or true (1).
Conditional (First)	The first condition expression in the list that evaluates to true determines the output path.
Default	Available when Expression or Conditional (First) is specified. For an Expression type Decision, the transaction will take the default path if the result of the expression does not correspond to a case path number. For a Conditional (First) type Decision, the transaction will take the default path if none of the other cases are True. The default may be set to <none>, so that no default is specified.
	Specify attribute assignments to make if transactions take the decision path.

Named Outputs

Element	Description
Case Text	Same as Decision Output case text options.
Conditional	Specify an output condition for each path to enable conditional behavior independently on each of the named paths. Every path that evaluates to True will be taken, duplicating transactions as needed. Click the button to create a conditional expression.
Default	Available when Conditional (Any) is specified. Same behavior as the Decision Output default option for Conditional (First).
	Specify attribute assignments to make if transactions take the output path.

Available

Causes the shape to look ahead to the receiving shapes in each path and holds transactions until, or generates transactions when, input constraints on one of the receiving shapes are satisfied. See Available Output Option for an example.

Activities receiving the transactions must meet one of the following conditions:

Transactions collected at input with Gate By Expression, Gate By Time, Gate By Message, or Gate By Signal (or Multiple conditions of these types of inputs).
No Inputs collection, no resources acquired, unlimited capacity, no schedule, and Task page Step type is Delay with no repeat specified.

If neither of these conditions is met, the simulator gives an error at run time.

Element	Description
Generate Here	Transactions will be generated at this shape. Transactions take only one path unless Parallel is also specified.
Parallel	All downstream triggers (conditions) for the Available output must occur before the process completes. In other words, the process must wait to complete until all correlated transactions generated from the Available output are ready to complete.

Note: The Set Argument Values option is displayed if this process is a Callable Process and ‘Generate Here’ is specified. If desired, enable the option and click the Values button to set values for arguments.