Configure General Options for the External Command Activity

General Configuration Screen

Good to Know

• In most text fields, you can use process data variables as an alternative to literal data values.

How to Start

1. On the Organizer, do one of these:
   • Open a process.
   • Create a process.
2. Do one of these:
   • Add an activity:
     1. In the Process Builder, in the Activity Library, open the Utilities tab.
     2. On the Utilities tab, drag the External Command activity onto your process.
   • Change an activity:
     1. In your process, double-click your activity.

Procedure

1. On the General Configuration screen, in the Display Name field, enter the name you want to show in your process.
2. (Optional) In the Description field, enter more than one line of text description for your activity.
3. (Optional) In the Connection Timeout (Seconds) field, specify the time limit, in seconds, for the session to complete the activity.

RelatedTopics

• External Command activity
• Process Data Variables