Global Automatic activities allow you to periodically run a component or an application.
Global Automatic activities do not have any direct end user interaction. Typically they invoke
applications or components that run on a remote server.
You can use Global Automatic activities to:
- process batch reports.
- download a set of files at a schedules time.
- listen for an specific event in the process.
- listen to a port.
- check for specific events, such as a mouse-click or a broken connection error in a remote
component.
- invoke a component or application to create new process instances.
Global Automatic activities are not connected to the process flow. However the events that occur in the
process flow may trigger its execution.