Adding a Global Activity

Global activities are not a part of the process flow. They are called global activities because they do not run from within an instance. Rather, they are executed outside of, and independent from, any existing instances.

To add a global activity:

  1. In the process design editor, click on the Global Creation (Global Creation icon ), Global Automatic (Global Automatic icon ), or Global Interactive (Global Interactive icon ) icon. When you do this, do not hold the mouse button. The mouse cursor will go into insertion mode in the process design editor.
  2. Insert the activity in an appropriate swimlane. Remember you must place the interactive globals, like any interactive activity, in a role swimlane. The global automatic can go anywhere. The Activity dialog box appears.
  3. Enter the name of the activity in the Name field. Note that the Activity ID, above the name field, is automatically completed using the name you type in, but ignoring spaces. This is the name that you can use to identify the activity in PBL code.
  4. Click OK. The new global activity is created.
Parent topic: Activities