Viewing Dependent Activities Of an Activity

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Last updated: Jul 27, 2015Version comment
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The Dependent Activities of an activity displays a list of activities that are using or are dependent on the activity. It includes activities that are directly or indirectly dependent upon the selected activity. If an activity is edited, then all the related activities will, in turn, be affected.
For example, there is a database driver namely DBDriver1. This driver is used by the database info DBInfo. The database info DBInfo is further used by the database schema DBSchema. The DBSchema is loaded while mapping source and target elements.

When the mapping activity is used in a process flow, it extracts the elements from the DBSchema. This implies that the mapping activity uses the DBSchema directly and the process flow indirectly. The DBSchema further extracts information from the DBInfo. This implies that the DBSchema uses the DBInfo directly and the process flow indirectly. The DBInfo further locates the driver DBDriver1. This implies that the DBInfo uses the DBDriver1 directly and the process flow indirectly.
The Dependent Activities will display the process flow and a list of all activities that are directly related to the selected activity. In the above example, the related activities for DBDriver1 will display the process flow and DBInfo. The related activities for DBInfo will display the process flow and DBSchema. The related activities of DBSchema will further include the process flow and the mapping activity.
 

Steps to view Dependent Activities of an activity (for example Text Schema activity)

  1. On the Adeptia Suite homepage, click the Develop tab.
  2. Go to Services > Schema and then click Text. The Manage Text Schema screen is displayed (refer to Figure 658).
  3. Select the activity row whose list of dependent activities you want to view.

  4. Click the More Actions  icon in the Actions column and then click Dependencies (see Figure 666).

    Figure 666: More Actions menu options: Dependencies

     

    This opens a screen that displays a list of activities directly and indirectly dependent on the selected activity. This screen has the following columns (see Figure 667):

    • Name: Displays the name of the dependent activity.

    • Description: Displays the description of the dependent activity.

    • Revision: Displays the revision of the dependent activity, if the activity is version controlled.

    • Activity Type: Displays the activity type of the dependent activity.

    • Owner: Displays the name of the owner of the dependent activity.

    • Project Name: Displays the project of the dependent activity.

    • Modified: Displays when the dependent activity was last modified.

    • Action: Provides you the option to edit, view, view the further dependencies the dependent activity.
       


    Figure 667: View Related Activities

  5. Close the screen to go to the Manage Text Schema screen.

    Related Activities cannot be viewed for Process Flows, WebDAV Folder and the Dashboard. It is also not displayed for the Users and Groups as all activities are dependent upon Users and Groups.