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Building and Configuring Workflows
Basic Activities
Activities Used to Create Workflows
Activities comprise the main building blocks or steps that perform the actions in a subprocess or workflow.

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Building and Configuring Workflows
- Workflow Design Basics
- Workflow Foundations
- Task Management for Administrators
- Task Configuration
- Task Step Configuration
- Global Subprocesses
- Basic Activities
  - Activities Used to Create Workflows
    Activities comprise the main building blocks or steps that perform the actions in a subprocess or workflow.
    - Common Properties
      You can configure the following common properties for each step contained within a workflow: name, description, and the enabled feature.
    - Insert an activity
    - Edit activity and subprocess attributes
    - Delete an activity
    - Move an activity
    - Add a branch to an activity
    - Delete a branch from an activity
    - Standard Activities
      Activities define how each subprocess is executed. Task steps are created by placing multiple activities in a subprocess. The placement of these activities defines how the subprocess functions when a workflow runs.
  - Third-party Activities
    Workflow can utilize third-party activities that are compatible with Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.
  - Predefined User Activities
    A user activity defines part of a user-defined process in a workflow process step. For a workflow to run, all user activities must be valid (contain no errors) and enabled (active).
  - Data Access Activities
    These activities are used for passing information and data between workflows and activities.
  - Workflow Control Activities
    These activities are used for creating changes in a workflow, such as starting or stopping activities, during run time.
  - Message Queue Activities
    These activities are used for working with a messaging queue in order to co-ordinate work between workflows and activities.
  - Flow Control Activities
    These activities are used to create multiple execution layers within workflow logic.
  - Event-based Activities
    These activities are used when you require workflow logic to start an event during run time.
  - Keyword Activities
    You can use keywords to replace text in work instructions and email subjects and bodies. This text is replaced with keyword values in a workflow at run time.
  - Operator Activities
    These activities are used by operators when a workflow is running the Task List.
  - eSOP Activities
    These activities are used when working with the eSOP Editor.
- Schedules
- Faults
- Test Workflows
- Debug Workflows
- Track Data
- Web Services Service Provider
- Legacy Workflow Web Service
- Categories
- Completion Codes
- Actuals
- REST APIs

Activities Used to Create Workflows

Activities comprise the main building blocks or steps that perform the actions in a subprocess or workflow.

Within each activity, there are a number of dependencies and relationships that can be created to other activities within subprocesses. The behavior of activities are configured through their properties and variables. Variables can also be used to output results from the activity's execution.

For example, some activities, such as the parallel activity, can have other activities placed inside them. By doing so, processes can be expanded and the branched activity can run more simultaneous activities to complete the required result.