Enable Activity through Configuration
After you define a custom activity as an extension you have to enable the activity configuration so as to display the activity in CentraSite Business UI.
Important:
The activity configuration parameters initially defined in the configuration file are editable and cannot be protected.
To enable the custom activity configuration
1. Open the customization file, centrasite.xml, in a rich text editor.
You can find the centrasite.xml file on <CentraSiteInstall_Directory>\cast\cswebapps\BusinessUI\custom\conf.
2. Locate Activities Configuration under <CLL Configurations>.
The Activities snippet looks like this:
<Activities>
<Activity id="Create Assets"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.CreateAssetActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_CREATE_ASSET
</Activity>
<Activity id="Global Reports"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.GlobalReportActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_GLOBAL_REPORTS
</Activity>
<Activity id="Manage Organizations"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.ManageOrganizationsActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_MANAGE_ORGANIZATIONS
</Activity>
<Activity id="ManageGovernanceRules"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.ManageGovernanceRulesActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_MANAGE_GOVERNANCE_RULES
</Activity>
<Activity id="ManageTaxonomies"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.ManageTaxonomiesActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_MANAGE_TAXONOMIES
</Activity>
<Activity id="Asset Navigator"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.AssetNavigatorActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTION_ASSETNAVIGATOR
</Activity>
</Activities>
3. Append the property configuration statement for custom activity. For example, Create Report Templates.
The input parameters are:
Parameter | Denotes |
id | A unique identifier for the activity, in this example for Create Report Templates. It uniquely distinguishes an activity in the CentraSite registry. If you wish to reset the activity at a later stage, you identify the activity using this id. |
class | The implementation class of com.softwareag.centrasite.api.activity.Activity interface. |
INMCL_ACTIVITY | The i18n string to display the activity in CentraSite Business UI. If you want to specify a localized name, type the message ID starting with a prefix INMCL (in this example, INMCL_ACTIVITY_CREATE_REPORT_TEMPLATES). The activity internally identifies the message ID and displays the localized name, if available in the message database. Else, if you specify a name without INMBU prefix, the activity will simply display a plain text name. |
The Activities snippet now looks similar to this.
<Activities>
<Activity id="Create Assets"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.CreateAssetActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_CREATE_ASSET
</Activity>
<Activity id="Global Reports"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.GlobalReportActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_GLOBAL_REPORTS
</Activity>
<Activity id="Manage Organizations"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.ManageOrganizationsActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_MANAGE_ORGANIZATIONS
</Activity>
<Activity id="ManageGovernanceRules"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.ManageGovernanceRulesActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_MANAGE_GOVERNANCE_RULES
</Activity>
<Activity id="ManageTaxonomies"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.ManageTaxonomiesActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_MANAGE_TAXONOMIES
</Activity>
<Activity id="Asset Navigator"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.AssetNavigatorActivityImpl">
INMCL_ACTION_ASSETNAVIGATOR
</Activity>
<Activity id="Create Report Templates"
class="com.softwareag.centrasite.api.
activity.impl.CreateReportTemplatesImpl">
INMCL_ACTIVITY_CREATE_REPORT _TEMPLATES
</Activity></Activities>
4. Locate Activities Configuration under <UIProperties>.
The configuration snippet looks like this:
5. Append the defined custom activity (for example, Create Report Templates) configuration statement.
<Activity id="Create Report Templates"
token="customactivity:Create Report Templates"/>
The input parameters are:
Parameter | Denotes |
refId | Refers to an unique identifier id for the activity, as defined in the CLL Configurations. |
token | The place tokenizer of the activity that helps in rendering the activity as a deep link URL. Important:
For rendering any custom activity, the place tokenizer should contain the customactivity: prefix. Thus for example, a custom activity Create Report Templates would have the place tokenizer read as customactivity:Create Report Templates. |
The Activities now looks similar to this.
6. Save and close the configuration file.
7. Restart Software AG Runtime.