Custom Activity

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Chapter 5 General Activities Palette : Custom Activity

Custom Activity

Resource

The Custom Activity resource allows you to create an activity that references a process definition. This is useful if you want to develop processes for others to use, but you also want to hide the implementation details of the process from users. The Custom Activity behaves like any other TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks activity.

You can also package and distribute custom activities within custom palettes. See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design for more information about creating and packaging custom activities.

Configuration

The Configuration tab has the following fields.

Field

Description

Name

The name to appear as the label for the custom activity. This name also becomes the default name of the activity when it is dragged and dropped into a process definition.

Description

Short description of the activity.

Select Process

The process definition that contains the implementation of the custom activity. You can only specify process definitions that start with the Start activity. You cannot specify process definitions that use any other process starter.

Any resources referenced by the selected process are automatically included in the custom activity. Dynamically called subprocesses are not known at design time, and therefore are not referenced by the process definition. Therefore, dynamically called subprocesses cannot be used by a process definition within a custom activity.

Global variables referenced by the resources in the custom activity are added to the $_globalVariables process variable of the process that uses the custom activity. You should document any required global variables so that users of the custom activity can specify appropriate values for the variables.

Custom Icon File

The icon you want to display for the custom activity.

Field	Description
Name	The name to appear as the label for the custom activity. This name also becomes the default name of the activity when it is dragged and dropped into a process definition.
Description	Short description of the activity.
Select Process	The process definition that contains the implementation of the custom activity. You can only specify process definitions that start with the Start activity. You cannot specify process definitions that use any other process starter. Any resources referenced by the selected process are automatically included in the custom activity. Dynamically called subprocesses are not known at design time, and therefore are not referenced by the process definition. Therefore, dynamically called subprocesses cannot be used by a process definition within a custom activity. Global variables referenced by the resources in the custom activity are added to the $_globalVariables process variable of the process that uses the custom activity. You should document any required global variables so that users of the custom activity can specify appropriate values for the variables.
Custom Icon File	The icon you want to display for the custom activity.