Patent ID: 11954629
Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An article of manufacture comprising:
a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a machine, will cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving a definition of a workflow, wherein the receiving includes:
receiving first data defining an input set of items for the workflow; and
receiving second data defining activities and a flow of the activities for the workflow, wherein the second data includes an activation policy for at least a particular activity of the activities, wherein each of the activities includes an action to be performed responsive to each of the set of items provided to that activity, wherein the flow and activation policy control how each of the input set of items is to be moved through the workflow;

determining and causing to be displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) an estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities, wherein the estimated operational outcome is an estimate of an outcome that would result if a machine were to perform the actions of those of the activities required for the input set of items to be moved through the workflow according to the control of the flow and the activation policy;
receiving, from the GUI, data identifying edits to the activation policy; and
responsive to the edits, determining and causing to be displayed an updated version of the estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities.