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How to: Create a new Action in .NET - Registering and testing the action

  Step 1 : Summary
  Step 2 : Design
  Step 3 : Implementing the skeleton
  Step 4 : Adding a property
  Step 5 : Finishing the implementation
  Step 6 : Registering and testing the action

Registering the action with the workflow engine - (page 6 of 6)

Level: developer

In order to make an action available in the workflow it must be registered in the workflow studio.
In order to do this, first copy the action to a folder (on the file system) where you want to keep all live actions.
The run the workflow studio and in the hierarchy view create a folder in the hierarchy, or select an existing folder where you want the action to live. They right click on the folder and select create\action definition.
Fill in the details of the action in the dialog (as shown in the screenshot). The click OK to finish registering the action.
Finally drag the item on to a workflow and click test.




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