InvokeCode Example

[sfranzen (Steven Franzen)]

Hi,

The official training materials might not be up to date yet as this activity has only just been added to the Community edition. I can give a small example right here though. Just as with “Invoke Workflow”, you can specify arguments that will be accessible inside:

But instead of a workflow filename you enter Visual Basic code you want to execute, directly into an editor window. Suppose I want my code activity to randomly shuffle its string argument. I could program this as follows, which is a version of the Fisher-Yates algorithm:

Shuffling the alphabet:

Might give you ubcaojvhzixtfldywqpnekrsgm, or fawuyorqsxjkpiglbhvednmztc or indeed hnrjkaiysdtblxupfgzcovwqme.