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title: "Assign copy of existing activity as procedure activity"
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# Assign copy of existing activity as procedure activity

Before you record a scenario or a process flow, usually, you first assign a procedure activity to the relevant business process.

If you want to:

- Model a scenario, you assign the procedure activity to a business process of type Scenario.
- Record a flow, you can assign the procedure activity to any business process. Usually, this is a business process to which no flow is assigned.

This topic describes how to copy an existing activity and assign the copy as procedure activity.

### Steps

1. Click **Business process modeling**.
2. Click the **Business processes** tab.
3. Click **Edit hierarchy**.
4. In the tree, select 'a node'.
5. Click the **Procedure** tab.
6. Click **Assign**.
7. On the **Existing** tab, in the list, find and select the activity that you want to copy.
8. Click the **Copy** tab.
9. In the **Activity** field, change the default activity name.
10. In the **Role** field, enter or select a value.
11. In the **Area** field, enter or select a value.
12. The default type is Scenario.

In the **Type** field, you can select another type.
13. Click **OK**.