Activity action (project) (UPDM - DoDAF aliases)
Creation
To create an Activity Action (Project):
• From an Activity (Project): right-click the Activity (Project), point to New, point to DoDAF, and then click Activity Action (Project).
On the Select Type dialog, create or select the Activity (Project) that is invoked by the Activity Action (Project).
• From a PV-2 Project Activity Hierarchy: click the 
Composite Association button, click the calling Activity (Project), and then click the called Activity (Project)
Composite Association button, click the calling Activity (Project), and then click the called Activity (Project)• From a PV-2 Project Activity Model:
◦ Click the Activity Action (Project) button, and then click in free space on the diagram. On the Select Type dialog, create or select the Activity (Project) that is invoked by the Activity Action (Project).
Activity Action (Project) button, and then click in free space on the diagram. On the Select Type dialog, create or select the Activity (Project) that is invoked by the Activity Action (Project).◦ From an appropriate Modeler pane, locate the Activity (Project) element that will be invoked by the Activity Action (Project), and then drag that element to free space on the diagram.
On the Items tab of an Activity Action (Project) element's property pages, you can view and navigate to the Activity (Project) that is invoked by the Activity Action (Project) through the Linked Item association.
Input Pins and Output Pins
An Activity Action (Project) can own Input Pin (Project) and Output Pin (Project) elements.
On creation of an Activity Action (Project), Modeler creates an Input Pin (Project) or Output Pin (Project) to represent each Parameter (Project) of the Activity (Project) that is used as the type of the Activity Action (Project).
Note that after creating an Activity Action (Project), Input Pin (Project) and Output Pin (Project) elements are not automatically created for new Parameter (Project) elements that are created on the associated Activity (Project).
Appearance
When shown on a PV-2 Project Activity Hierarchy, an Activity Action (Project) appears as follows:
When shown on a PV-2 Project Activity Model, an Activity Action (Project) appears as follows:
Relationships
The following relationships are of importance to an Activity Action (Project):
• Activity Part Of Project relationships can be created by adding an Activity Action (Project) to an Activity Partition (Project).
The following sections provide information about how an Activity Action (Project) is used in the model.
Create an Activity Action (Project) from
Create from an Activity Action (Project)
In addition to the UPDM elements that can be created from all UPDM elements (Representation, Definition, Information, and Metadata):
Shown on these diagrams, tables and matrices
In addition to the AV-2 Integrated Dictionary and StdV-1 Standards Profile, which can show all UPDM elements:
UPDM writeable properties
The following writeable properties are available on the Activity Action (Project) tab of an Activity Action (Project) element's Property Pages:
• URI