BPEL Designer Palette: Structured Activities

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The Structured Activities section of the BPEL Designer Palette contains icons for the following business process activities: Flow, Sequence, If, Pick, Scope, While, Repeat Until, and For Each. These elements can group activities within a process in order to apply certain rules, or they can place certain restrictions on activities. The following table describes the activities you can add from the Palette to your business process diagram.

Icon   Description
If icon If. Specifies a conditional process behavior when one branch of activity is executed from a set of choices.
While icon While. Repeats an activity as long as the specified condition is true.
Repeat Until icon Repeat Until. Repeatedly executes one or more activities as long as specific conditions hold true after the execution of each iteration.
For Each icon For Each. Repeatedly executes the activities contained inside a Scope activity N+1 times, where N equals the Final Counter Value minus the Start Counter Value.
Flow icon Flow. Specifies one or more activities to be performed concurrently, one after another.
Sequence icon Sequence. Defines a collection of activities to be performed sequentially, in the order they are listed.
Pick icon

Pick. Waits for the occurrence of one of the defined events and then performs the activity associated with the event that occurred. The occurrence of these events is often mutually exclusive. If more than one event occurs, the one that occurred first is performed.

Scope icon Scope. Defines a nested activity with its own associated local variables, fault handlers, partner links, and correlation sets.
See Also
Creating a BPEL Diagram
Operations with Elements in the Design View
About the BPEL Mapper

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