Create Queue

General

On the General tab, select shared resource to establish a connection to the Amazon server. The following table lists the configurations on the General tab of the CreateQueue activity.

Field	Module Property?	Description
Name	No	Specify a name for the activity in the process definition.
SQS Client	Yes	Select SQS Client configuration either from an existing resource or create a new resource, by using the Choose/Create Default Resource icon .

Description

On the Description tab, provide a short description for the CreateQueue activity.

Input

On the Input tab, specify input values for the CreateQueue activity. The following table lists the input elements on the Input tab of the CreateQueue activity.

Input Item	Data Type	Description
QueueName	String	Required. The name of the queue to create. This name is incorporated into the queue URL returned.
FIFOQueue	Boolean	Optional. This flag must be set to true if the user wants to create the FIFO queue. The name of the queue must have .fifo as a suffix.
ContentBasedDeduplication	Boolean	Optional. This field is used for enabling or disabling content based deduplication for the FIFO queue.
DelaySeconds	Int	Optional. The time in seconds for which the delivery of all messages in the queue is delayed. Value range: 0 to 900 seconds (15 minutes) Default value: 0
MaximumMessageSize	Int	Optional. The number of bytes a message can contain before Amazon SQS rejects it. Integer value range: 1024 bytes (1 KiB) up to 262144 bytes (256 KiB) Default value: 262144 (256 KiB)
MessageRetentionPeriod	Int	Optional. The number of seconds for which Amazon SQS retains a message. Integer value range:60 seconds (1 minute) to 1209600 seconds (14 days) Default value:345600 seconds (4 days)
Policy	String	Optional. The queue's policy. A valid AWS policy. For more information about policy structure, see Overview of AWS IAM Policies in the Amazon IAM User Guide.
ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds	Int	Optional. The time for which a ReceiveMessage call wait for a message to arrive. Integer value range: 0 to 20 (seconds) Default value: 0
RedrivePolicy	String	Optional. The parameters for dead letter queue functionality of the source queue. For more information about RedrivePolicy and dead letter queues, see Using Amazon SQS Dead Letter Queues in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.
VisibilityTimeout	Int	Optional. The visibility timeout for the queue is a period of time, during which SQS prevents other consuming components from receiving and processing that queue. Integer value: 0 to 43200 seconds (12 hours) Default value: 30 seconds
Permissions	Complex	Optional. Permissions contribute to the policy for the queue. Permissions permit queues to be shared with other principles (userIDs).
Label	String	An arbitrary label for the permission.
AccountId	String	One or more Amazon Account IDs for which the permission is to be applied.
Action	String	One or more actions the client wants to allow for the specified principals. The following values are valid values: * \| SendMessage \| ReceiveMessage \| DeleteMessage \| ChangeMessageVisibility \| GetQueueAttributes \| GetQueueUrl

Note: You must fill out either none or all of the following fields: Label, AccountId, and Action.

Output

On the Output tab, find the output value of the CreateQueue activity. The following table lists the output elements on the Output tab of the CreateQueue activity.

Output Item	Data Type	Description
QueueName	String	Provides the queue name from the input schema.
QueueUrl	String	The URL for the created SQS queue.

Fault

The Fault tab lists exceptions that are generated by this activity.

Fault	Data Type	Description
SQSException	N/A	Any exception generated by the activity after execution. It has the following fields: ErrorCode and ErrorMessage.
ErrorCode	String	The plug-in error code for the exception. For more information, see Error Codes topic.
ErrorMessage	String	The plug-in error message for the exception. It contains the error message from the AWS SQS API call that failed.

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