actioninitiated

actioninitiated is a term used in software design and information systems to describe an event, state, or signal that begins a process in response to an initiating action. It denotes that an action has been started rather than merely requested, and is often used as a descriptor in documentation, event names, or code.

In practice, actioninitiated processes are common in user interfaces, workflows, and event-driven architectures. Examples include a button press that triggers data submission, a voice command that starts a task, or an automated system check that starts upon a condition being met. In these contexts, actioninitiated identifiers mark the transition from idle or waiting to active processing and may be paired with subsequent events such as actioninprogress, actioncompleted, or actionfailed.

Coding conventions for actioninitiated vary; the term may appear as actioninitiated in plain text, or as actionInitiated in camelCase, ActionInitiated in PascalCase, and sometimes as action_initiated in snake_case. It is often used as a boolean flag, a status value within a state machine, or as the name of an event type.

Considerations include naming clarity to avoid confusion with system-initiated actions, ensuring proper authorization, maintaining idempotence, and recording logs for auditing and debugging. In testing, scenarios should cover both the initiation path and subsequent processing, including error handling and recovery.

See also: user-initiated action, event-driven architecture, trigger, state machine, command pattern.