Adding activities to a process

The activities in a workflow define the functions the workflow performs. When you are create a workflow with the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio application, the process canvas is displayed showing the process tab as the default. The Start and End activity are already on the process canvas. You add activities to the process to specify the actions for the process to execute. Activities are found on the Activity Palette in the pane on the left side.

To add an activity to the process

1. In the BMC Atrium Orchestrator Development Studio Designer, click the Activity Palette tab to display the activities.
   The Activity Palette tab is a vertical tab to the left of the canvas.
2. Drag the activity to the process canvas and release the mouse button.
3. Click the line connecting the Start and End activities.
   This action selects the line and green boxes appear on the connection line.

4. Click and hold the green box nearest the end activity until the arrow pointer turns into a hand pointer.

5. Drag the pointer to the left side of the activity to add to the process.

6. Click and hold the mouse button on the grey arrow pointer next to the activity until the arrow pointer turns into a hand pointer.

7. Drag the pointer to the left side of the end activity to connect the process.

8. Press Ctrl+S to save the activity.