Overview
This one-day course is the third in the Advanced Workflows series: simplify existing complex workflow logic by standardizing and reusing common workflow tasks.
Course Outline
Describe the types of business challenges a custom server activity can solve by performing these tasks:
- Summarize the approach to learning used in this module
- Configure the Advanced Workflows: Developing Custom Server Activities in .NET site
- Describe the characteristics of custom server activities
Explain the role of Geocortex Essentials Workflow Designer in analyzing custom activity solutions by performing these tasks:
- Describe how to use a reference workflow activity to explore candidate tasks
- Use a referenced workflow activity to examine custom activity functionality
- Describe how to use the Save As Assembly feature to explore candidate tasks
- Use an assembly-based activity
Describe how to code a custom activity class with Visual Studio by performing these tasks:
- Describe the role of activity subclasses
- Describe the two types of activities
- Identify the workflow activity argument types
- Describe the role of the execute method
- Manage custom activities in Visual Studio
Build a basic custom server activity with Visual Studio by performing these tasks:
- Describe how to build a custom server activity using Visual Studio
- Build a server workflow activity using Visual Studio
- Describe how to automate activity deployment
- Automate activity deployment using Visual Studio
- Describe how to add exception handling to a custom server activity
- Add exception handling to a custom server activity
- Describe how to configure activity debugging in Visual Studio
- Configure activity debugging in Visual Studio
Configure an activity designer for a custom activity by performing these tasks:
- Describe how to add attributes to a custom activity
- Add designer attributes to an activity's arguments
- Describe how to improve the activity’s user interface
- Add an activity designer to a custom activity
