Engine Activities

The following activities are found under Engine Activities:

• End Activity Execution Activity: This activity enables the user to end or terminate the execution of an activity in a workflow.

• End Child Workflow Execution Activity: This activity enables the user to end a child workflow from the parent workflow.

• BlockingOutput Activity: This activity facilitates synchronous execution of workflow activities other than human activities with an active form or a SharePoint list.

• Database Activity: The database activity enables execution of queries, stored procedures, and functions from the workflow.

• Decision Activity: The Decision Activity can be used to insert a decision in the workflow.

• ForEach-Loop Activity: The ForEach Loop Activity is used to loop an activity through a collection within an XMLIterator Variable.

• For-Loop Activity: The For-Loop Activity can be used to start a loop within a workflow.

• Logger Activity: The Logger Activity can be used to log messages like information, warnings, and errors to the logger console from the workflow.

• Loop Execution Step Entry Activity: The user can use this activity if an instance level association between the End Activity Execution activity and the activity to be ended is required.

• Next Loop Activity: The Next Loop activity can be used as the terminal activity in a loop initiated using a For-Loop Activity.

• Resource Variable Activity: The Resource Variable Activity can be used to identify an actor to perform a workflow activity, through a variable.

• Rule Activity: The Rule Activity allows complex rules or expressions to be built into the workflow.

• Workflow Activity: The Workflow Activity enables the execution of a second workflow from a workflow.

• Update Variable Activity: The Update Variable Activity can be used to update the value of Variables and XmlVariable that can be used in the subsequent activities.

• Update Parent Variables Activity: The Update Parent variables activity can be used to update a workflow variable from a second workflow, provided both workflows belong in the same repository.

• Synchronize Activity: The Synchronize Activity synchronizes the execution of different activities.

• Set Workflow Output Variable: The Set Workflow Output Variable activity can be used to set the output of the parent workflow from the child workflow.

• XML Navigator: The XML Navigator is used to either locate or navigate to a specific record in a collection within an XMLIterator Variable.