Find Activity Pane

This pane lets you search for specific activities within open workflow definitions. Search results appear in the Results tab.

To open this pane

To find activities

  1. Under Find activities, specify how you want to search for activities.
    • To search for activities with validation errors or warnings, select With validation errors or warnings.
    • To search for activities with a particular name, select Named and type the name you want to search for.
    • To search for activities with a particular summary or activity description or to search for a certain word or phrase in that description, select Whose properties contain and type the word or phrase you want to search for.

      Example: Chris has a workflow that uses an e-mail activity to automatically e-mail the manager, Jane, when work is overdue. Recently, Jane was promoted and a new manager was hired. Chris needs to update the e-mail activity so that e-mails are now sent to the new manager instead of Jane. Chris uses the Find Activity to search for activities in the open workflows whose properties contain Jane's e-mail address.

    • To search for all activities of a certain type, select Whose activity type is and type the name of the activity you want to search for.

      • Example: With the Whose activity type is option you can type "E-mail" to search for all E-mail activities even if you have renamed the E-mail activities in your workflows.

  2. Under Look in, select Current Workflow to search only the currently-selected workflow, or All Open Workflows to search every workflow definition you have open.
  3. Optional: Select one or more of the following to refine your search.
    • Match case: By default, this search is not case sensitive. A search for "E-Mail" will return the same results as a search for "e-mail." Select this option to return search results only if the case of the search term matches the case of the result.
    • Use regular expressions: Select this option to allow regular expressions in search terms. Click the regular expression button next to Named and/or Whose properties contain to insert a regular expression. Learn more about Regular Expressions.
  4. Click Find All to return all search results. Clicking this option takes you to the Results Pane.

Find Activity Results Tab

This tab lists the activities found with a Find Activity search and allows you to go to those activities. Selecting a search result will take you directly to that activity in the workflow definition.

To go to a found activity

  • Click the activity in the Results list.
  • Use the Next Result button to go to each activity returned by the search in turn.