How to Add Activities to a Personalized Activity Group

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Service Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager, System Center 2012 - Service Manager

Use this procedure to add activities to a personalized activity group in the System Center 2012 – Service Manager Authoring Tool. Activities can belong to more than one group; for example, you can create a Favorites group and populate it with both default activities and custom activities that already belong to other groups.

If you want to use custom activities in workflows, you must add them to a group in order to make them available in the Activities Toolbox pane. Note that before you can add custom activities to groups, an administrator must install the appropriate activity assembly files on the computer running the Authoring Tool. For more information, see Modifying the Default Toolbox.

To add activities to a personalized activity group

1. In the Activities Toolbox pane, right-click the group, and then click Choose Activities.

2. In the Choose Activities for a Group dialog box, scroll the list to find the activities you want to add. Select the check boxes for the activities you want to add.

3. If you want to use custom activities that do not appear in the list, click Add Custom Activities. In the Select Custom Activity Assembly dialog box, select the custom activity assembly file, and then click Open. This adds the custom activities from this assembly file to the activity list.

4. After you have selected all of the activities for the group, click OK.

Modifying the Default Toolbox
Personalizing the Activities Toolbox