Activity is a ruletype in pega consist of sequence of steps which are executed in order to perform a particular task. Activity are used mainly for background processing.

Instance of Rule-Obj-Activity.

EG:

send an email when the registration is completed send a birthday mail to all customers at midnight 12.00 AM Create a new operator as the part of the case

Definitions to know:

• Label: The label acts as an identifier for the step in pre- (When) and post- (Jump) processing actions. Enter two forward slashes (//) in the Label field to skip a step for testing purposes at run time.
• Loop:

1. For Each Top Level Page: It is found in clipboard under user pages. (EG: pyWorkPage)
2. For Each Page : Used for Page List and Page Group.
3. For Each Value list/grp
4. For Loop: Same As Java.

• When Rule: When condition to execute a statement. Entry Point to Execute a Step.
• Step Page: The step page allows you to set a different context(Page Name) for a step. In Pages and Classes you can mention your TempPageand you can give a different class(CaseType). Now you can use the properties of that class and do some changes. Temporarily.
• Parameters: It can be used by the user to enter values and to avoid hard coding.

1. First define any parameter in the Parameters Tab and to set any value you can define as param.parametervalue.

• Local varaible: Local variable is used only in the execution of the activity. No seperate page is created in the clipboard like a Parameter.

In an Activity you can Use Stepstatus fail/good to exit an activity. (use jump)

Primary:

You should primary when the step pahe is changed in an activity.

Eg: Step Page : pyWorkpage then

.BillingAddress.State = .ShippingAddress.State