What is call to an existing action?

You can insert a call to a reusable action that is stored in your current test (local action), or in any other test (external action). Inserting a call to an existing action is like linking to it. You can view the steps of the action in the action view, but you cannot modify them. If you call an external action, you can choose, however, whether you want the data from the action's data sheet to be imported as a local, editable copy, or whether you want to use the (read-only) data from the original action.

If the test calling an action uses per-action repository mode, the called action's object repository is read-only.

If the test calling an action uses a shared object repository, the called action uses the same shared object repository as the calling test.

If you are working in a test that uses per-action object repository mode, you cannot call an external action from a test using a shared object repository.