Add an activity

An activity is an event in a process that is initiated by an input or output, usually described by a verb (action) + noun (person, place, thing, event, substance or quality).

Note: To display the Drawing toolbar, from the View menu choose Toolbars & Panels. On the Toolbars tab select the Diagram Button Bar check box.

Hint: When text is highlighted you can embolden (Ctrl+B), italicize (Ctrl+I) or underline (Ctrl+U) it.

Note: Right-click anywhere on the diagram after creating an activity to return to select mode.

Selected text can be used to define and add keywords to the Keywords Library. Keywords created in this way will be automatically associated with the current diagram. Highlight the text that you want to define as a keyword, right-click it and choose Add as Keyword. For more information about Keywords, see Creating Keywords.

Commentary text is a way to provide additional supporting information about an activity to users. Associated activity commentary text is accessible to users in storyboards, in the Activity Details Panel for a selected activity and when a user hovers their mouse over the commentary icon

on an activity within a diagram.

To add commentary text to an activity, right-click the activity and choose Commentary. Commentary text can also be created for multiple languages, as you can with general activity text. To prevent commentary text appearing as hint text when users roll their mouse over the commentary icon, right-click the activity and deselect Show Commentary as Hint Text. You can also deselect this option for multiple selected activities in one operation. Commentary text can be edited by clicking the commentary icon

for an activity, or right-clicking an activity and choosing Commentary.

Hint: You can also define commentary text at the same time as defining activity text. In the Text window, after defining/modifying the activity text, choose File > Save and Edit Commentary.

TIBCO Nimbus® allows processes to be created to support multiple languages by allowing activity and commentary text to be defined in different languages (the available languages are set by an Administrator in the System Options). The text that is displayed will depend on the user's PC locale; the default language will be displayed if a user's PC locale is set to a language that has not been defined for a particular object.

To specify text for an additional language select Show additional language text entry panel, then choose the language from the Language drop-down list and enter the text in the box below. Repeat this step for any other languages that you want to define.

Note: If a language appears in red then the language variant is not supported in the current process repository.

Hint: To test how a diagram looks in a different language, from the View menu choose Switch Language and then choose a language to display.

•You can automatically duplicate the last activity box that was created using a single click on the diagram when the Draw Activity button

is enabled.

•To change the shape of an activity, right-click it and from the Colors And Styles menu choose Change Shape.

•If you don't want to enter text whenever you create an activity you can switch off automatic text entry. See User Preferences for more information.