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Background documentationActivity Maintenance

 

You can use this activity to change properties of existing activities and to create new activities from existing ones with different activity rules.

This activity also allows you to do the following:

  • Change activity rule settings for existing activities (see Activities with Rules)

    Rules allow you to control how an activity behaves.

    When you install the system, each rule of the activity is set to a default value. If this default value meets your needs, you do not need to change it.

  • Assign activities to one or more groups to organize them in the Activity Manager

Fields

The following table describes fields requiring explanation:

Field

Description

Description

The activity title

Enabled

If selected, allows users to run this activity.

Visible in Activity Manager

Selected: Displays this activity in the Activity Manager

Deselected: Does not display this activity in the Activity Manager

Used for behind-the-scenes activities such as Start and hook point activities (see Hook Point Activity)

For more information, see Displaying Activities for User Groups in Activity Manager.

Class/Program

The Java class or program that provides the interface for the activity and executes it when the activity is accessed

Caution Caution

If the class/program of a new activity is a part of the domain URL, it must comply with the URI syntax rules.

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Type

The category of this activity (see Activity Types)

Integration

Several types of activities in the system have rules you can change. You can change these rules on the Rules tab page.

If you are a developer who has written new custom activities, use this activity to add and modify your custom activities.

Users cannot access your activities unless you add them in Activity Maintenance.

Caution Caution

Activities are global to all sites in the database.

End of the caution.

To give users access to various activities, use the User Group Maintenance activity.

Procedure

Changing Activity Rule Settings

If you want an activity to behave differently for different users, you can create a new activity based on the old one and change the new activity rule settings.

Note Note

If you change the original activity, the change affects all sites of your system installation.

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To create a new activity with different rule settings, proceed as follows:

  1. On the initial Activity Maintenance screen, retrieve the original activity record.

  2. Change the value in the Activity field to the name of the new activity.

    For example, if you want to change Serialize (PR550), you could name the new activity PR550A.

  3. On the Rules tab page, change the existing rule settings of the retrieved activity as needed (see Activities with Rules).

    To change the setting of a rule that does not appear in the table, choose Insert New, and enter valid values in the Rule and Setting fields.

    Note Note

    For information about the exiting rule settings, see the corresponding help topics for activities with rules, for example, As-Built Configuration.

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  4. Save your entries.

Assigning Activities to Activity Groups

You can control how activities are grouped in the Activity Manager and on the Permissions tab page of User Group Maintenance.

Note Note

You first need to define activity groups in Activity Group Maintenance (see Activity Group Maintenance).

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  1. On the Activity Groups tab page of Activity Maintenance, assign the retrieved activity to one or more activity groups.

  2. Save your entries.

More Information

Activities with Rules