Standard activities of type Activity

The Pega Platform includes hundreds of standard activities. Several dozen of them are likely to be directly used in your application. Below are selected standard activities (with an Activity Type of Activity) that are important for your development team to know about. These activities cannot be directly referenced in flows.

• To review a complete list of the standard and custom activities available to you, based on RuleSets and security, use the Records Explorer.
• For a list of important standard activities that can be referenced in interactive flows, see Standard Activities for flows

• For lists of dummy or placeholder activities that your application can override, see Standard activities — Extension points.
• To start or advance a flow execution from an agent or service activity, use the activities in the BPM Engine API. See Standard activities — BPM Engine API.

Apply To Work-

These activities apply to the Work- class but are not part of the Process API.

Full Name	Purpose
Work-.Action NotifyQuick	Creates simple correspondence.
Work-.AddCovered	Creates a new cover work item and performs a Commit method, which saves the work item and releases all locks. Use Work-.AddCoveredWork rather than Work-.AddCovered in situations where the Commit method is not wanted until later.
Work-.CloseWorkItem	Closes the work item, releases the lock and sends back HTML code that closes the work iframe.
Work-.CopyAttachmentTo NewCategory	Makes a copy of (the most recent edition of) an existing attachment, in a different attachment category.
Work-.CorrUpdate	Updates correspondence.
Work-.DoClose	Executed when the operator clicks the close button on a user form. Calls Work-.CloseWorkItem.
Work-.getFlow ProblemOperator	Identifies the operator (by default Administrator@org.com) who receives assignments for flow problems. See flow error.
Work-.GetNextWork	Supports the Get Next Work button on the Confirmation harness form. Retrieves an assignment from a user's worklist or from a workbasket. Can be called by an agent.
Work-.RandomSelection	Supports statistical sampling.
Work-.ResumeFlow	Typically called when a service-level agreement deadline or goal is not met, this activity forces completion of an assignment and advances the flow execution along a specified (connector) flow action.
Work-.StartNewFlow	Starts an additional flow execution on the current work item.
Work-.WorkPartyRetrieve	Refreshes the party identity in a work item. Referenced in standard harness forms.

Others

These standard activities apply to a class other than Work-.

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