Synchronize Activity

Activity description

The Synchronize Activity synchronizes the execution of different activities. The engine does not proceed with the execution of further actions until all the actions leading to this activity are completed.

Activity Properties

The Synchronize activity has to be configured by specifying appropriate values for the different properties in the Activity Properties area. The Activity Properties can be accessed by clicking on the Activity Properties tool in the Tool Bar or by selecting the appropriate option from the right click menu for the Synchronize activity. The Activity Properties are organized under the following groups of related properties. The properties under each group are described in this topic.

Name & Description

The properties in the Name & Description group have been described below. You can use these properties to specify the name and description for the activity.

Name - This property can be used to specify a name for the activity.

Property Type: Optional (This property needs to be set only if necessary.)

Description - This property specifies a brief description to be displayed for the activity.

Property Type: Optional (This property needs to be set only if necessary.)

Activity outputs

The Synchronize Activity does not return any value.

Example for a Synchronize Activity:

Suppose an Employee applies for leave, then his leave has to be approved by two managers. When the leave is approved by both the managers, employee should get the information. In the following workflow, a checklist connected to approvals. The two approvals are connected to synchronize activity. Only when the output of both the approvals is approved the information will go to the applied user.

Exception Behavior

Each activity has the Raise Error on Unhandled Linked Output property on click of which, it shows all the default configured mapped error outputs in red with their check boxes selected.

See Mapped Error Outputs for more details.