25.1.2 Surveying the Native Activities

Understand the extensible set of native workflow activities.

Your workflows can use the following native activities:

• Invoke API to call PL/SQL or REST APIs
• Switch to decide between alternative paths
• Human Task - Create to add an approval or action task for a user to complete before proceeding
• Send E-Mail to notify users for any reason, including relevant data
• Wait to pause until an event occurs or a period of time elapses
• Execute Code to run inline PL/SQL
• Send Push Notification to alert a user on smartphone, tablet, or desktop with a short message
• Invoke Workflow to call another workflow like a subroutine and wait for it to return
• Parallel Flow to run multiple sequences of activities in parallel and wait for all to complete
• Generate Text with AI to produce textual output based on a system prompt and custom data, and
• Server Side Geocoding to turn an address into coordinates to show on a map.

When none of the built-in activities meets your needs, you can install a community-developed workflow activity plug-in or create one yourself. Just create a process type plug-in with its Workflow Activity checkbox checked in the Supported For section.

Tip:

Server Side Geocoding is currently only available in Oracle APEX on Autonomous AI Database. In contrast, the Geocode Address dynamic action works in all APEX installations. It cooperates with a Geocoded Address page item type to geocode an address in a page.