Activities are the individual business tasks within the process
that compose the larger business goal.
Once you've created a new process, you are ready to create the
activities that will execute the task to be performed by that process. To
add an activity, proceed as follows:
- In the palette, click an activity's icon.
- Drag the cursor out over the canvas. You will notice
that the icon beside your cursor has a plus symbol when you are at a place
where you are allowed to drop the activity. When the cursor becomes a crossed
out circle, continue moving the cursor until it becomes a plus sign again.
- Click the area of the canvas where you want to drop the activity.
- Configure the activity as necessary in the Properties area
of the process editor.
Your newly created activity will appear on the canvas.
Note: The
Use
Data Type Variables option may not appear if the operation being
invoked by this activity uses a WSDL message with a parameter extension. To
work around this, proceed as follows:
- Disable the Use Data Type Variables check box in
the activity.
- Create two "Interface"-typed variables for the input and output. These
variables are actually WSDL-message-typed, but in the business process editor
you select an Interface and Operation and direction (input or output) and
the editor will determine which WSDL message to use.
- Add Assign activities before and/or after the Invoke to copy the data
into these variables.