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Workflow

Concept: Activity definition

Definition of a workflow step

An activity definition represents a step within a workflow definition.

Each activity definition has an action that performs the step, such as sending an e-mail or asking the user a question. The activity definition provides the information that the action requires, such as the e-mail address or the text and possible answers of the question. This information may be fixed, or based on data from the case and parameters.

An activity definition in the workflow studio

A number of transitions are also defined by the activity definition, specifying the next activity to execute for each possible result of the activity.

In addition, activity definitions contain:

		Name, the name of the activity, which must be unique within the workflow;
		Time limit, the time limit for completing this activity. If time out expires then the transition is fired;
		Responsible, the script which defines the user or group who is responsible for completing the activity.

When a new workflow instance is started, the executing activities are represented by activity instances.

Ordinarily, only one activity can be executing at any point in time. Split activities may be used to launch multiple threads concurrently - see segment definitions for further information.