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Controlling workflows by enabling or disabling actions
Learn how to control which actions a user can send files to from each archive.
03. December 2025
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How to control outputs
One way to ensure correct file flow and prevent files from being sent to the wrong destination or processed incorrectly is to limit access to specific actions. Essentially, this can be done in two ways. You can limit access to one or more actions on an archive or panel basis.
In addition to these two ways of preventing the wrong action from being executed, you can activate a property for each action that prompts the user for confirmation before executing the action.
Limiting access on a per-archive basis
By default, when you create an archive, the files it contains can be processed using any action. If you wish to limit the access to certain actions from an archive, first open the properties page for that archive. This can be done by right-clicking the archive in question and choosing Properties from the context menu. The Archive properties window will open.
Now, select Set disabled actions. The Select actions to block window opens. Select the actions that files in the archive should be blocked from using, and select OK in each of the two windows. Now, when opening this archive, the disabled action will be grayed out so that the files cannot be processed by the action.
Limiting access on a side panel basis
By default, Fotostation is configured with one Actions side panel located on the right-hand side of the application. You can choose to temporarily remove one or more actions from a side panel by changing the side panel’s properties. Right-click on the side panel tab and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The Side panel properties window will open.
Select the Display only selected action items radio button, and then select Select actions. An overview of all actions and archives (displayed below their respective groups) will be shown. Select the group and/or the action(s) that should appear in the side panel. Actions not selected will not be visible in the side panel. Select OK to close the two windows.
Note
It is possible to have multiple Actions side panels. Since the settings described above apply to the side panel selected, you will have to disable the selected actions for all Actions side panels if you want to make sure that these actions are not available to the user.
Ask for Confirmation: This action property is useful if, for example, an action is configured to alter the original image data and you want to make sure that the action isn’t run unintentionally (by dropping a file on the wrong action, for example). If the Ask for confirmation option (found in the Action properties window) is selected, Fotostation will display a warning asking for confirmation before the action is executed.