> ### 2.2 Creating a Decision Table Action to contain your Decision Table

> Your Decision Table works only when it is assigned to a Decision Table Action. For general information on Actions or JavaActions and instructions using other JavaActions, see the Interstage BPM User's Guide and the Interstage BPM Developer's Guide. The instructions in this section apply only to the Decision Table Action.

> To create a Decision Table Action:

> 1. Open the Process Definition that will contain your Decision Table in the Interstage BPM Console Process Designer by clicking its Edit button. See the previous section Selecting a Process Definition to Contain Your Decision Table for more information on the process definition you select.
> 2. Select the place in your Process Definition where you want to place your Decision Table. The Decision Table Action you are creating will contain it.
> 3. To associate your Action with an activity, right-click the Activity Node where you want to place your Decision Table Action and select Action Set from the drop-down list. To add your Action at the process level, click the Properties button in the Target Area, then click the Action Set tab. The Action Set Pane appears.
> 4. Click the Add button of the section where you want to place your Decision Table Action. The Action List dialog box appears. Then, expand the Rules Actions folder.
> 5. Click Decision Table Action to select it then the Create button. The Decision Table Action editor appears. All the enabled decision tables are automatically displayed in the Decision Name drop-down list.
> 6. Select a Decision Table from the Decision Name drop-down list.
> 7. [Optional] Enter a name for your Decision Table Action in the Action Name field.
> 8. [Optional] Enter a description for your Decision Table Action in the Notes text area.
> 9. Click OK to create your Decision Table Action.

> If any of the process definition UDAs are mismatched with the Decision Table that you assigned to the JavaAction, an error message will appear listing the missing UDA. For example: In the example displayed in the figure below, the Salesman Bonus UDA is not defined in the process definition.

> If a mismatch occurs, you must add the missing UDAs to the process definition, then repeat these instructions. The safest method is to use the same process definition that you specified when you created the decision table that you are associating with this process definition.

> Figure 13: Error Message for UDA Mismatch
> 1. Click OK to return to the Process Designer.
> 2. Click Save to save the changes you have just made to your Process Definition.
> 3. Start a process from the process definition to which you added this Java Action. See the next Help section Using Your Decision Table for more information and detailed instructions.

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