What Smart Actions are available

As of the May 2026 Smart Actions release R3.56.0, the following Smart Actions are available:

Area Item Smart Action Details

GRC Records

1 Associate Records Associates two records (parent, child)
2 Disassociate Records Disassociates two records (parent, child)
3 Create Record Creates a new record
4 Update Record Updates values of any fields on a record (up to 4 field values per Smart Action)
5 Delete Record Deletes a record
6 Hard Delete Record Hard Deletes a record – removing all trace from the system (can also hard delete records already soft-deleted in the UI)
7 Anonymize Record Anonymizes specified fields on a record (can be used to anonymize any data in the system with a suitable controlling report)
8 Move Record Move a record to a new primary parent (optionally move specified primary child types)
9 Copy Record Copy a record to a new primary parent (optionally copy specified primary child types)
10 Lock Record Locks a Record (direct lock is applied)
11 Unlock Record Unlocks a Record (direct lock is removed – inherited locks may remain)
12 Attach Report Execute a Cognos Report and attaches the output to a record (XLSX, PDF, CSV, HTML supported)
13 Cancel Checkout Cancels Checked Out status of a file attachment record
14 Create Tag Create a new Tag
15 Update Tag Update a Tag, changing the description or the enabled/disabled status
16 Tag Record Associate a tag to a GRC Record
17 Untag Record Disassociate a tag from a GRC Record

Users

18 Create User Creates a new OpenPages User account
19 Email User Email a user with custom Subject & Body text including content from one or more GRC records
20 Send Email Send emails to recipients outside the OpenPages user base,includes with the ability to send attachments
21 Update User Updates a User Account, allowing the editing of the Email Address, Description, First Name, Last Name, Password, Locale, Profiles, Groups & Roles
22 Enable User Enable a User account
23 Disable User Disable a User account
24 Lock User Lock a User account
25 Unlock User Unlock a User account
26 Anonymize User Anonymize the details of an OpenPages User Account

Workflow

27 Start Workflow Start a Workflow on a record
28 Terminate Workflow Terminates a Workflow on a record
29 Refresh Workflow Refresh a running workflow, updating the Due Date, Assignees, Subscribers & Criticality and for OpenPages V9.0.0.1 onwards update the object to the latest published Workflow version.
30 Workflow Action Perform a workflow Action on a record

Admin

31 Add FXRates Add FX Rates to the system
32 Run Schedule Run an OpenPages Schedule job and wait until it has completed. (This allows multiple Schedules to be executed consecutively)
33 Wait Schedule Wait for a previously started schedule to complete
34 Show Message Show a message - use in a Workflow to provide validation error messages for more complex data conditions than can be achieved using standard Workflow validations
35 Admin Mode Allows Enable and Disabling of System Administration Mode
36 Update Setting Allows changes to be made to Application Settings
37 Generate Framework Regenerate one or all Reporting Frameworks including capability to set a custom Data Source
38 Execute SQL Execute SQL against the OpenPages or external database
39 Classify Watson Set enumeration fields to classify an object using Watson NLU AI Model
40 Train Watson Train a Watson NLU AI Model directly from OpenPages
41 Delete Watson Delete a Watson NLU AI Model directly from OpenPages
42 Allow Sessions Enable or Disable normal user logins except for Administrators and an optional set of permitted users
43 Terminate Sessions Force logout all active user sessions except Administrators and explicitly permitted users
44 Check Sessions Check if the Login Session Listener is installed and list which users are actively logged into the system
45 Update Application Text Updates the text label of an Application Text item
46 Collect Logs Runs the Log Collector process allowing this to be scheduled periodically.
47 Create Folder Creates a new Folder
48 Delete Folder Deletes a Folder
49 Run Calculations Execute a specific OpenPages Calculation on all or specified objects

Custom Code Management

50 Upload Server File Upload your custom Java jar and jsp files to the Application Server from within OpenPages
51 Validate Server File Validate that your custom Java files and jsp files are correctly deployed to the application server
52 Delete Server File Delete a file in the custom Jar directory or the OpenPages web root where your JSP files are uploaded
53 Create Server Directory Create a directory in the OpenPages web root where your custom JSP files can be uploaded
54 Delete Server Directory Delete a directory in the OpenPages web root where your custom JSP files are uploaded
55 Restart OpenPages Restart the OpenPages Application Server directly from within OpenPages.

User Interface

56 UI Log Viewer View and Download Application Server log files directly in the OpenPages User Interface

See our Release Notes for detailed release notes.