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AssignActivity Method

AssignActivity assigns an activity in the Dispatch Board. This method leverages the caching mechanism implemented on the Dispatch Board to maximize user performance.

This method applies to the CSSSWEFrameGanttDBActX class used for dispatching employees. This method performs the specialized ownership changes to update the primary owner for the Action business component and to subsequently update the performance cache for the Dispatch Board. This method removes any previous primary owner, sets the new primary owner to the employee on the Y business component (on the Dispatch Board y-axis), and sets the Status field to Scheduled.

If pre-or post-processing must occur on the drag-and-drop business event to support a specific business process, then you can access the arguments for this method from custom code.

Invoked From

This method is called by the applet for the Gantt chart for the Dispatch Board when a user drops an activity to the Gantt chart of the Dispatch Board. The Drag Drop Business Service applet user property affects this method call.