Activities

Pipelines now have the following control activities:

  • Execute pipeline: Calls another pipeline in the same factory.
  • For each activity: Executes activities in a loop similar to any for each loop in structured programming languages.
  • Web activity: Used to call custom REST endpoints.
  • Lookup activity: Gets a record from any external data. The output can later be used by subsequent activities.
  • Get metadata activity: Gets the metadata of activities in ADF.
  • Until activity: Loops the execution of activity sets until the condition is evaluated to true.
  • If condition activity: This is like any if statement in standard programming languages.
  • Wait activity: Pauses the pipeline for a time before resuming other activities.

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