Figure: Activity View
When working on an interactive activity, the activity definition with the corresponding application definition determines the panel that will be shown. The defined panel is loaded into the Activity view and initialized with process data. The user can now work on the activity.
If the activity has an in-data-mapping to the data, according input fields are provided.
You can configure the way these fields are displayed in the Portal Configuration view. Refer to chapter Setting Preferences for Activity Panel Presentation Setting Preferences for Activity Panel Presentation for details.
Figure: Activity View
If the data is of type Structured Data, several fields for all attributes and levels are provided.
Figure: Activity Panel with Structured Data fields
An arbitrary number of activities can be activated in separate Activity Execution views in parallel.
If the Description is added in the Properties page for the activity in modeler, then it is displayed as tooltip text when you hover the mouse over the activity name.
Figure: Tooltip Text of an Activity
For the time being, the following restrictions apply to manual activities with structured data:
The following maxlength attributes apply to input fields according to the input data type:
| Data Type | Maxlength |
|---|---|
| Int | 10 digits + 1 |
| Short | 5 + 1 |
| Byte | 3 + 1 |
| Long | 19 + 1 |
| Float | 39 + 1 |
| Double | No maxlength |
When the document data is mapped to any manual activity, following scenarios can be considered:
If the document is null, the manual activity UI displays the name of the document mapping and the icon that launches the File Upload dialog box. Perform the following steps to upload a document to document data:
icon
Figure: Document Icon
In the manual activity panel, right-click the document data and click Delete.
Figure: Document Icon
In case document data is already associated with some document and user uploads a document from Process Documents pane of the Process Details view, the document uploaded from Process Details view will override the document uploaded from Activity panel.
Also, the changes from Process Details view are immediately reflected to the Activity panel but changes on Activity panel are not reflected to Process Details view until the activity is completed or saved and suspended and Process Details view is refreshed.
When choosing the Delete option on an uploaded document, a confirmation dialog opens to ask whether to remove the document permanently from the process.
Figure: Delete confirmation
In case the current process supports process attachments, you can decide whether to move the document to Process Attachments or to remove it permanently from the process:
Figure: Delete confirmation with move option
If the document is moved to Process Attachments, and this document already exist there, the document to be moved will be appended with a timestamp. For example moving Document.txt and this document already exists, results in the following naming:
Figure: Document name with appended timestamp
The following behaviour applies to the different scenarios:
You can save changes to an uploaded document in the Document Viewer. In case a document with this name already exists, the document name of the document to be saved will be appended with a timestamp. For example saving License.tif and this document already exists, results in the following naming:
Figure: Document name with appended timestamp
If you do not save changes to the uploaded document and try to perform the operation Complete or Suspend and Save on the manual activity with document data; the following warning message is displayed.
Figure: Warning Message
The Complete and Suspend and Save operation saves the changes to the document mappings but it does not save the changes to the uploaded document and document meta-data. The changes must be saved on the individual document view. When you select the check box Do not show this message again, the checkbox under the Messages option of the Activity Panel configuration gets cleared. Also, the warning message is never displayed again and the changes to the document do not get saved. For more information, please refer to the section Setting Preferences for Activity Panel Presentation. Setting Preferences for Activity Panel Presentation.
You have the option to view tooltip text to get information on the following data:
Note that the fields with only in-data mapping and value can also have tooltip text. If the value is not specified for the field then the tooltip text is not displayed.
The tooltip text is displayed if only the description is added. Also, if in-out data mapping between document data and activity exist then only the tooltip text is displayed.
To view the tooltip text for the document data, perform the following steps:
Figure: Tooltip Text for Document Data
The tooltip text is displayed if only the description is added.
To view the tooltip text for the primitive data, perform the following steps:
Figure: Tooltip Text for Primitive Data
The tooltip text is displayed if only the description is added.
To view the tooltip text for the structured data, perform the following steps:
Figure: Tooltip Text for Structured Data
When 1:N cardinality is defined for a field of a structured data, this field is displayed as row in the activity panel with icons to add a new row or delete one or more row(s). For example, a structured data using a field of type Address with cardinality 1:N is displayed in the following way:
Figure: Activity Panel for Structured Data with 1:N cardinality for type Address
Note that when 1:N cardinality is defined for structured data, the table displays one row by default.
To add a row, click the Add 
icon.
A new row with entry fields is added.
Figure: Multiple rows for Structured Data with cardinality 1:N
To delete one or more row(s), select them in the table and click the Delete 
icon.
You can change the number of columns used to be displayed in the table layout for multiple cardinality structured data in the Configuration Panel. Refer to section Setting Preferences for Activity Panel Presentation Setting Preferences for Activity Panel Presentation for details.
Whenever a wrong value is entered in any field of the activity panel, an error is shown in the form. A warning message is displayed at the top of the form.
Figure: Activity Panel - Form Error Message
For the table structure, the error message is displayed under the cell value.
Figure: Activity Panel - Table Error Message
If field level properties are set for a structured data type, then the activity panel is displayed according to set properties. In the following example, these field level properties are set for a structured data field:
With these properties set, the activity panel is displayed as in the following screenshot:
Figure: Activity Panel - Structure Data Field Level Properties
For detailed information and examples, please refer to chapter Structured Data Annotation Properties in the Stardust Online Documentation - Modeling Guide Structured Data Annotation Properties of the Modeling Guide.