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Function Activity

A function activity is defined by the PL/SQL stored procedure or external program that it calls. Function activities are typically used to perform fully automated steps in the process. As a PL/SQL stored procedure, a function activity accepts standard arguments and can return a completion result.

If you pass a parameter for the stored procedure, you can expose that parameter as an activity attribute. The activity attribute's value can be set when you define that activity as a node in your process. Note that these activity attributes are available only to the current activity and are not global like item type attributes. See: To Define Activity Attribute Values.

As an external program, a function activity is able to enqueue payload information into an Oracle8 outbound queue for some external agent to dequeue and consume. The external agent can similarly enqueue updated attributes and a completion result into an inbound queue that the Workflow Engine consumes and processes. See: To Create a Function Activity.

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