Configuration

The Configuration tab has the following fields.

Field

Global Var?

Description

Name

No

The name to appear as the label for the activity in the process definition.

Description

No

Short description of the activity.

Type

No

Type of data to be written. This can be either Text or Binary. When Text is specified, the Separator, User Defined Separator, and Encoding fields appear.

Separator

Yes

The type of separator to use. The separator is written to the TCP connection after the specified data is written.

User Defined Separator

Yes

When User-defined separator is chosen from the list in the Separator field, this field appears. This field specifies the separator character to use.

When Binary is selected in the Type field, a user-defined separator can be a string representation of a single byte value or it can be comma-separated byte values (for example, 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c). For valid string representations of byte values, refer to the Java documentation for the decode(String n) method of java.lang.Byte.

Encoding

Yes

When text data is specified, this field determines the character encoding to use for the text data.