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Introduction

An action is a task that G2 executes. Actions often provide programmatic equivalents to interactive tasks, such as printing a workspace, pausing the knowledge base (KB), or changing the value of an item's attribute.

Some actions require items to be transient. The effects of most actions performed on permanent KB items revert when you reset the KB, unless you save the change with a make permanent action. For example, if you rotate an icon, resetting the KB causes the icon to revert to its previous position.

The effects of the following three actions persist when you reset the KB:

You can use actions in rules, procedures, user menu choices, and action buttons. This example shows a series of actions: create, change, transfer, and make, being executed from an action button

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