Start Activity The Start activity is the first activity in a process definition (process starters replace the Start activity when they are used in a process definition). A process can be called from another process, and the Start activity is used to define the input expected by the process. The Start activity has the following tabs: • Configuration • Output Editor • Output See Subprocesses for more information about calling a process from another process. Configuration The configuration tab has the following fields. Field Description Name The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition. Description Short description of the activity. Output Editor The Output Editor tab defines the data that the process is expecting as input. Any process that calls this process definition must supply the data specified on the Output Editor tab. You can define your own datatype on this tab, and you can reference XML schema or ActiveEnterprise classes stored in the project. Once defined, the data specified on the Output Editor tab becomes the output schema of the Start activity. This data then becomes available to other activities in the process definition. See Editor for a description of how to define a schema. Output The output for the activity is defined by the specified data elements on the Output Editor tab.
The Start activity is the first activity in a process definition (process starters replace the Start activity when they are used in a process definition).