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Building and Configuring Workflows
Basic Activities
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).
Limits for User Activities
There are restrictions to the elements that comprise a workflow. These limits ensure a quality functioning workflow.

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Building and Configuring Workflows
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- Basic Activities
  - Activities Used to Create Workflows
    Activities comprise the main building blocks or steps that perform the actions in a subprocess or workflow.
  - 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).
    - Add a user activity to a subprocess
      When user activities are created in the resource list, they are available to be added to a subprocess or process step and configured.
    - Make a local copy of a global user activity
    - Make a locally created user activity global
      If you are using a user activity in a subprocess that you want to use again in another workflow, you can add it to the global User Activities resources list.
    - Properties for User Activities
      You can use properties to further define the resource you are configuring.
    - Limits for User Activities
      There are restrictions to the elements that comprise a workflow. These limits ensure a quality functioning workflow.
    - User Interface Attributes for User Activities
      The Overview tab provides general information about the currently selected user activity.
    - User Activities Configuration Panel
      In this configuration panel, you can further define user activity attributes.
  - 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.
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Limits for User Activities

There are restrictions to the elements that comprise a workflow. These limits ensure a quality functioning workflow.

You can create a maximum of 500 user activities.

Limits

User activities are self-contained; therefore, these limits do not include the children of other activities. For example, if an existing user activity has 50 child activities, and it is used within a new user activity, it only counts as one child activity.

Important: Data item limits include child activities.

The following table describes the available options.

Limit	Restriction	Result
Data items and External events (including contained activities)	100	Validation error.
Nesting	5 levels	Validation error.
Circular references	If X contains Y, then Y cannot contain X	Validation error.