Avoid using Notification Activities #
Notification Activities can be used to notify individual users or groups the events taking place in a Workflow. However, they introduce a degree of rigidity in terms of workflow definitions which should be avoided.
This is so for the following three reasons:
- Updating Notification Activities requires re-publishing the whole workflow
- Any Workflow(s) which are in flight will not update with the changes, and so the effects of the changes will not be immediate
- Your notification logic can become spread out in different areas of activities
The best way to avoid these pitfalls is to use a Workflow Event and trigger all Notifications from the Events table. This allows your notification logic to be centralised and decoupled from your workflow processing logic.
Timer workflow activity #
The Timer activity pauses the workflow for a specified period of time. If there are many timer activities in a workflow, its execution time can be very long.
