Configuring Actions for Automation
Actions are a set of configurable tasks that will be performed on a package during automation. The actions that are available for Package Automation are Import, Test, Wrap, Convert and Publish. Each of these actions should be pre-configured to achieve automation. You could add only those actions for automation which are needed for your process of creating packages for deployment. For example: You may choose to add Import, Test and Publish actions only for automation. Whenever automation is triggered on the scheduled time, all the actions added for automation will be performed on all those applications which have one of these statuses: New Version Available, No Match in Catalog and all failed statuses. The same set of pre-configured actions which are added for automation will be executed for a package which is selected for execution in the Automation tab by clicking on Execute button. When all the actions are added for automation, the actions are executed in the following order: Import, Test, Wrap, Convert and Publish.
Note:Import is prerequisite for all other actions therefore it is a mandatory action. This action will be executed as a first step during automation execution.