Working with Standard Activity Features

Each activity usually has two or more of the following tabs for specifying the characteristics of the activity:

General

This tab is available for all activities. In addition to the name of the activity, it also sets other parameters such as questions about directories and overwriting for file activities, class name for Java activities, host name, and port number for mail activities, modifiers, mode, and activation settings.

Description

This tab is available for all activities. You can write down any information you need to preserve for the activity.

Statement

This tab is available for query activities; used to define, validate, and execute a query.

Advanced

You can specify any advanced configuration parameters here.

Event

For activities that wait for incoming events, such as incoming TIBCO Rendezvous™ messages, this tab specifies the timeout for the incoming event.

Conversations

Used to add new conversations. For more information about conversations, see Using Conversations .

Input Editor

Used to edit an output element by adding a complex anonymous type, complex element, primitive element, and so on. Not all activities have this option enabled. For more details see Input and Output.

Input

Using the tab you can map and transform output data from the previous activities in the process (including the event that starts the process) to input data for Input the activity. For more details see Input and Output.

Output Editor

This tab is used to choose or configure the output header element. Not all activities have this option enabled. For more details see Input and Output.

Output

This tab displays the output of the activity’s data to the activities that follow in the process definition. For more details see Input and Output.

Fault

Lists the activity faults or various exceptions that might occur with this activity, such as FileNotFoundException or IllegalCopyException.