📄️ Introduction to the Activity Designer
The Activity Designer is a flexible tool that helps you create custom automation activities that meet your company's specific needs. With the Activity Designer, you have control over the creation of activities that can serve a variety of purposes, based on your unique automation requirements.
📄️ Accessing the Activity Designer
Permissions
📄️ Starting a New Activity
The Custom Activity Information popup will automatically appear if this is your first time entering the Activity Designer or if no activities are already open.
📄️ Importing Activities
If you have a custom activity that was created in a different environment or an activity downloaded from the VAR::EXCHANGE, you can import it into your current environment.
📄️ Designing a Custom Activity
Once you click Create or Import to create the new activity, the Activity Designer canvas will display.
📄️ Frontend Code - JSON Overview
Getting Started with JSON
📄️ Generating JSON
The Activity Designer enables users to easily create JSON UI definitions for custom Python-based activities. With a single click, users can generate a basic JSON structure that automatically incorporates all identified parameters in their Python code. This feature simplifies the workflow, making it faster and more efficient to define custom activity configurations.
📄️ Actions on Activities
The top bar of the Activity Designer combines the tab bar that you can use to switch between open activities, and the toolbar that gives you a variety of actions that can be performed on the activity displayed on the canvas. Only one activity at a time can be displayed on the canvas.
📄️ Actions on Categories
New categories can be created, and existing categories can be deleted or edited.
📄️ Custom Activities
Use Custom activities in any workflow in the same manner as the out-of-the-box Resolve activities. Additionally, these activities have several distinguishing characteristics that make it easier to see that they are custom.