An activity is a step in a pipeline that receives a message as input and produces a message as output.
An activity is an intermediate step in the pipeline. It has a number of specific properties, such as locations, documents, or filters. You can connect an activity to:
Another activity.
An event, in which case it is part of an export pipeline.
An endpoint, in which case it is part of either an import or an export pipeline.
Typical examples of activities include:
XML generation from a record set, or record generation from an XML document.
Data translation from one format to another, such as XML to CSV or CSV to XML.
Data mapping from one structure to another.
The following table provides links to and descriptions of the topics in this section:
To | See |
|---|---|
Learn about the activity used to create attachments for notifications | |
Learn about the activity used to translate a CSV input into XML structure | |
Learn about the activity used to upload notification attachments to a network, FTP, or SharePoint location | |
Learn about the activity used to generate a job queue event for a message | |
Learn about the activity used to map the business object to the messaging infrastructure | |
Learn about the activity used to map data items from several sources | |
Learn about the activity used to write records into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central | |
Learn about the activity used to break a composite message into a series of individual messages, each containing data related to one item | |
Learn about the activity used to convert a TEXT document into an XML document | |
Learn about the activity used to convert a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central record set into an XML document | |
Learn about the activity used to generate records based on a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central XML port | |
Learn about the activity used to generate an XML document using a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central XML port | |
Learn about the activity used to convert an XML document into a CSV document | |
Learn about the activity used to convert an XML document into an HTML document | |
Learn about the activity used to convert an XML document to a TEXT document | |
Learn about the activity used to apply a custom XML style sheet on an XML document | |
Learn about the activity used to apply a Message Editor to the pipeline | |
Learn about the activity used to apply a scheduler to the pipeline | |
Learn about the activity used to convert a JSON document into an XML document | |
Learn about the activity used to convert an XML document into a JSON document | |
Learn about the activity used to clean an XML document of empty nodes/blocks that are not mandatory | |
Learn about the activity used to wait for an external HTTP request to continue the pipeline | |
Learn about the activity used to run AL objects (code units, reports) | |
Learn about the activity used to set the text encoding on the incoming message | |
Learn about the activity used to validate XML schemas |