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Atlas — Standard activities of type Activity

The Pega 7 Platform includes hundreds of standard activities. Several dozen of them are likely to be directly used in your application. Below are selected standard activities (with an Activity Type of Activity) that are important for your development team to know about. These activities cannot be directly referenced in flows.

Apply To Work-

These activities apply to the Work- class but are not part of the Process Engine API.

Full Name

Purpose

Work-.Action
NotifyQuick Final
Creates simple correspondence.
Work-.AddCovered Final Creates a new cover work item and performs a Commit method, which saves the work item and releases all locks. Use Work-.AddCoveredWork rather than Work-.AddCovered in situations where the Commit method is not wanted until later.
Work-.CloseWorkItem Final Closes the work item, releases the lock and sends back HTML code that closes the work iframe.
Work-.CopyAttachmentTo
NewCategory
Makes a copy of (the most recent edition of) an existing attachment, in a different attachment category.
Work-.CorrUpdate Final Updates correspondence.
Work-.DoClose Final Executed when the operator clicks the close button on a user form. Calls Work-.CloseWorkItem.
Work-.getFlow
ProblemOperator
Identifies the operator (by default Administrator@org.com) who receives assignments for flow problems. See flow error.
Work-.GetNextWork Supports the  Get Next Work   button on the Confirmation harness form. Retrieves an assignment from a user's worklist or from a workbasket. Can be called by an agent. See Portal basics — Using the Process Work workspace for advanced notes on this activity.
Work-.RandomSelection Supports statistical sampling.
Work-.ResumeFlow Typically called when a service-level agreement deadline or goal is not met, this activity forces completion of an assignment and advances the flow execution along a specified (connector) flow action.
Work-.StartNewFlow Starts an additional flow execution on the current work item.
Work-.WorkPartyRetrieve Refreshes the party identity in a work item. Referenced in standard harness forms.

Others

These standard activities apply to a class other than Work-.

Full Name

Purpose

@baseclass.ActivityStatus
NoContentHandler
Presents a form when a top-level activity completes with presenting an HTML display. ("The operation completed successfully, but returned no content." with green checkmark.) See How to customize the activity success and exception windows.
@baseclass.ActivityStatus
ExceptionHandler
Presents a form when an activity fails or an uncaught Java exception occurs. ("Please contact your System Administrator ." with red X.) See How to customize the activity success and exception windows.
Code-Security.AppAuthenticate Supports the single sign-on feature.
Code-Security.LogOff Ends a requestor session.
Data-Corr-.EmailSend Sends email correspondence.
Data-Portal.ShowDesktop Causes the portal to be displayed after log in. Typically referenced in an Operator ID instance.
Log-Cluster-FTSIndex.pzResolveFTSIndexEntry Sets the status of re-indexing for the specified node ID, which corresponds to a node in a cluster, to "Resolved-Error".

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