The Activity Type is a field on the Security tab of the Activity form describing the activity's characteristics. An Activity Type has one of the twelve values listed here. Five of these types identify activities that you can reference directly in flow rules.
Activity Type |
Description |
Activity
|
Any activity that is not one of the activity types below. |
Assembly
|
Reserved. Do not use. |
Assign
|
An activity that creates an assignment, an instance of a
concrete class derived from the Assign- base class.
Referenced in a flow to support an assignment. These activities may
be referenced by an assignment shape (![]() |
Connect
|
An activity that calls a Rule-Connect- external
system interface. These activities may be referenced by an
Integrator shape (![]() |
Locate
|
VAGUEC-462 R-10318 An activity that finds a locatable page; referenced on when condition, Declare Expression and Constraints rules only. |
Load
|
PROJ-359 5.3An activity that adds values to declarative pages. Referenced on Declare Pages rules only. |
Notify
|
An activity that sends correspondence to a work party in a work
object. In a flow rule, such activities may be referenced in an
Assignment Properties panel, or explicitly in a notify shape
(![]() |
OnChange
|
An activity that starts automatically when another activity step changes certain properties, as defined through a Declare OnChange rule. 04-01 C-458 |
Route
|
An activity that determines which user worklist or workbasket
receives an assignment. In a flow rule, such activities may be
referenced in an Assignment Properties panel, or explicitly in
router shape (![]() |
Trigger
|
An activity that starts automatically when an object of a certain class is saved, as defined through a Declare Trigger rule. 04-01 C-458 |
Utility
|
An activity that typically updates a work object and is
referenced in a flow, but requires no user interaction. In a flow
rule, these activities may be referenced in a utility shape
(![]() |
Validate
|
An activity that validates the contents of a rule or data form. (Rarely needed in applications.) |
The Assign
, Connect
, Route
,
Notify
and Utility
types identify activities
that are directly referenced in flow rules. Typically, activities used in
flows have a class derived from the Work- base class as the
Applies To portion of their key.
The Activity Type field on the Activity form corresponds to the property Rule-Obj-Property.pyActivityType.