What the documents look like
Brand outlet discount operations clear off-season inventory and do not maintain a new-arrival full-price image. The main data sources are ERP inventory age, POS sales, outlet mall campaigns and historical discounts, with weekly or monthly update cycles. The daily documents are discount approvals, slow-moving inventory lists, price tags and gross-margin worksheets. In cross-border material and multilingual retrieval work, one slow-moving list can exist in Chinese, English or a local language at the same time, and price tags and margin worksheets also need checking against the language of the target market.
The field definitions and approval states in these documents directly shape how the form input node and the user selection node connect inside a workflow. A slow-moving list carries item identity, quantity, warehouse receipt date and a current discount; a discount approval carries the requested discount and an approval status. The two are separate records, and the workflow routing step has to keep them separate.
Constraints at the workflow routing step
The form input node is a user interaction node. When it triggers, the conversation enters an interaction state, the workflow state is recorded, and execution continues after the user completes the interaction. The node collects the form information the user submits and passes it to later nodes. The user selection node is also a user interaction node; when the user makes a choice, the node evaluates that choice and runs the corresponding branch. The interaction state record is the behaviour of the interaction node itself; no separate global state-recording switch is documented.
Information that is collected has to be passed explicitly to later retrieval, judgement or interface nodes. Order writes, document backfill and external status synchronization require a separate business interface or a later process. Retrieval and form collection do not constitute authorization to execute.
Hypothetical paper exercise sample: on 10 March 2025 a brand outlet channel clearance team submits an English slow-moving list whose source text reads "Item A-102, off-season jacket, 420 units, warehouse received 2024-06-15, current discount 30%". On the same day a Chinese discount approval form states "A-102 off-season jacket, requested discount 45%, approval status is pending review". A proposed draft sentence reads "A-102 has been approved for a 45% discount and clearance can proceed". That draft sentence is the item awaiting judgement.
Configuration and implementation checks
| Configuration item | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Form input node | Official node | Enters the interaction state when triggered, collects required information, and passes it to later nodes after submission |
| User selection node | Official node | Runs the corresponding branch after the user makes a choice; verify each branch connection individually |
| Interaction state check | Implementation check item | The recorded state is interaction-node behaviour; no separate global state-recording switch is documented |
| Output hand-off check | Implementation check item | Pass collected information explicitly to later retrieval, judgement or interface nodes, and compare each output against its input |
| External action separation | Implementation check item | Order writes, document backfill and external status synchronization require a separate business interface or later process |
| Hypothetical exercise starting point | Hypothetical for this page | Start from the "pending review" status in the sample and compare it with the value "approved", because that field alone decides whether the draft sentence holds |
Three common errors
- Treating pending review as approved. The sample approval form states "approval status is pending review", while the draft sentence says "has been approved for a 45% discount". The input is the approval form source text, the comparison is the approval status field, and the observable result is that "pending review" and "approved" do not match, so the draft sentence is unsupported.
- Treating retrieval or form collection as authorized execution. The form input node collects information and passes it to later nodes, and the user selection node runs a branch; neither constitutes discount approval or clearance authorization. The input is the node output, the comparison is whether a separate business interface or later process exists, and the observable result is that the authorization execution step is absent.
- Merging different fields into one judgement. In the sample the 30% figure is the current discount, the 45% figure is the requested discount, and the approval status is pending review. The input is the two field values, the comparison is field name against field value, and the observable result is that the fields differ, so neither 30% nor 45% supports an approval conclusion.
How to verify the setup
- Input the English slow-moving list source text and the Chinese approval form source text from the sample, then compare the draft sentence "A-102 has been approved for a 45% discount and clearance can proceed" against the approval status field. The observable result is that "pending review" and "approved" do not match, so the draft sentence does not hold.
- Input the outputs of the form input node and the user selection node, then compare whether they are passed explicitly to later retrieval, judgement or interface nodes. The observable result is that the output hand-off matches item by item and no external action runs automatically. An empty-result hand-off can be checked against the downstream design using an explicit paper input of []; this does not claim that a fictional rule retrieval necessarily returns [].
- Input the current discount of 30% and the requested discount of 45% from the sample, then compare field name against field value. The observable result is that the two fields differ, so neither value supports an approval conclusion. Libraries built on different vector models cannot be associated together; verify the identifier first, exclude those that do not match, and record the actual observation.