Add or edit a business process activity

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title: Add or edit a business process activity
description: Create or edit a business process activity to track a discrete unit of work in your organization.
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last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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# Add or edit a business process activity

Create or edit a business process activity to track a discrete unit of work in your organization.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_apm.apm\_user

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** > **Enterprise Architecture Workspace**.

2.  Open the Portfolio List view by selecting the Portfolio icon \(\[Omitted image "portfolio-icon.png"\] Alt text:\).

3.  Select the expand row icon \(\[Omitted image "ExpandIcon.png"\] Alt text:\) next to **Business Architecture**.

4.  Select **Business Process Activities**.

5.  Add or edit a business process activity.

    -   To add a business process activity, select **New**.
    -   To update details of an existing business process activity, select the business process activity, and edit the details in the details page.
6.  On the form, fill in the fields.

    For field information, see [Create a business process activity form](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-create-a-business-process-activity-form.md).

7.  Select **Save**.


**Parent Topic:**[Manage business process activities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-manage-business-process-activities.md)

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[View all business process activities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-view-all-business-process-activities.md)

[Add a business actor to a business process activity](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-portfolio-management/eaw-add-business-actor-to-business-process-activity.md)