What is the difference between 'Branch Activity' and other?

[Shalini Gupta]

Instead of branch activity, we can show multiple transition path from a single activity. So what is the exactly use of branch activity in workflow?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi Shalini,

You generally use branch activity when you want to split one transition into multiple transition paths. All transitions from this activity execute concurrently.

Go through the link below:

http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Utility_Activities#gsc.tab=0

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Thanks

Ankur

[Shalini Gupta]

Thank you all for reply..

Hi Ankur,

If you use any other activities for multiple transition path so you can see that all transitions from activity execute concurrently.

[vinothkumar]

Branch activity doesn't actually do anything different than just having the paths go out to multiple activities from any other activity

[Chuck Tomasi]

As the others stated above, it's pretty close to just being the same as making multiple transitions, but it does have two main differences. First - readability. It's very obvious that There is a branch going on. If your workflow has a lot of crossed wires, this may make it easier to read.

Second, (from section 2 of the page Utility activities)

Branching can affect the behavior of rollback activities. See Selecting a Rollback Activity for more information.