ADF PSA — Finally An Easy Way To Skip An Activity In Pipeline
How to skip an activity in ADF pipeline using the latest feature called Activity State in ADF.
This article talks about how to skip/deactivate an activity in ADF by marking it as inactive. If you are like me who has been working with ADF for years now, you can understand when I say that it was never easy to force ADF to skip an activity within the pipeline. Even more so, if that activity was right in the middle of the whole pipeline.
Thankfully, Microsoft now released an enhancement where data engineers can easily customize their data pipeline to skip an activity.
Below is sample data pipeline that contains a set activity and a web activity for API request.
- Set variable assigns the HTTP URL to a variable — http_address.
- The Call_API activity sends a GET API request at the URL stored in http_address variable.
When I click the Set_Variable activity, I can now see Activity state (preview) under General settings.
