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Suspending and resuming an Automatic Activity

You may want to render an Automatic Activity dormant (suspend it) until a certain moment in time is reached. The Workflow API supports this functionality.

The following methods can be used in your External Activity class, or in the Script Editor dialog of your Automatic Activity:

Suspend

Suspends the Activity (which must be in its Started state). This method takes the following parameters:

reason
A string containing the reason you are suspending the Activity.
resumeAt
A DateTime timestamp (optional) containing the moment at which the Activity should be resumed.
resumeBookmark
A string (required only if resumeAt is set) which enables you to distinguish between a normal and a resumed Activity.
Resume

Resume the Activity (which must be in the Suspended state). Use this method to manually resume an Activity if you did not specify a resume timestamp when you suspended it. This method takes no parameters.