Common Activity Features
Overview
Most workflow activities share a common set of execution and configuration capabilities.
These features provide consistent behavior across activities and help simplify workflow design, execution control, and error handling.
Depending on the activity type, some features may not be available.
Execution Control
Execution Control determines how an activity behaves when multiple incoming execution paths converge.
This behavior is controlled through the Wait All Incoming setting.
Execution Control is commonly used when workflows contain parallel branches, conditional paths, or multiple activities that converge into a single activity.
For more information, see:
Error Handling
Workflow activities support configurable error-handling policies that determine how execution should respond when an activity encounters an error.
Supported strategies include:
- Fault
- Continue
- Retry
- Suspend
- Inherit
Error-handling policies can be configured at both the workflow level and the activity level.
For more information, see:
Custom Error Handlers
Many activities support Custom Error Handlers that allow activity-specific error processing logic to be implemented directly within the workflow designer.
When enabled, a dedicated error execution path can be connected to an activity to perform actions such as:
- Logging
- Notifications
- Incident creation
- Recovery processing
- Compensating actions
Custom Error Handlers provide access to detailed error information through the Error Handler category in the Data panel.
For more information, see:
Process Data Integration
Activities support dynamic configuration through Process Data.
Inputs and properties can be bound to values from:
- Model Data
- Form Data
- System Data
- Enterprise Data
- Activity Outputs
- Variables
This allows workflows to dynamically adapt at runtime without requiring static configuration.
Activity Outputs
Many activities expose output values that can be consumed by downstream activities.
Outputs become available through the Process Data panel and can be used for:
- Conditional logic
- Data transformation
- Workflow routing
- Integrations
- Reporting
The available outputs depend on the activity type.
Activity Context Menu
Activities provide a context menu to simplify workflow design and maintenance.
Common options include:
- Cut
- Copy
- Delete
- Collapse
- Expand
- Add Error Handler (supported activities)
Some activities may provide additional options specific to their functionality.
Feature Availability
Not every activity supports every common feature.
Examples include:
- Some lightweight activities may not support Custom Error Handlers.
- Some control-flow activities may expose simplified execution control behavior.
- Available outputs vary by activity.
Refer to the documentation for the specific activity when feature availability differs from the standard behavior.