Specific Workflow Activities unique to Application Life Cycle Management tools are provided out of the box. (See the Activity Plug-ins section to learn more about plug-ins and their associated activities.) You must know the types of Workflow Activities that you want to use before you can set up a Workflow. Constructing a Workflow is simply a matter of chaining these Workflow Activities together and then establishing relationships between them through chaining. There are broad categories of Workflow Activities that can support your standard application life cycle steps. For custom Workflow Activities you can use the “Execute Shell Command” Activity Type. This Activity Type will allow you to execute any custom command line script.
Table DW-3 shows how to create a Workflow Activity using the “Update from CVS” pre-defined Workflow Activity.
Table DW-3 Creating Activities
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Select the Activities tab. |
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Highlight "My Computer" from the Workflow Hierarchy field, which is located within the Workflow Editor screen. |
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Click the Add Activity button. A window appears with two fields: one for plug-ins (Activity Plug-in) and the other for activities (Activity Type). |
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Select the CVS plug-in from the Activity Plug-in field and then the Update from CVS activity from the Activity Type field. |
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Click OK. Your new activity name, Update from CVS $(JOB_NAME), will appear under the machine that you chose. |