Operation activities are protected blocks of code based on the EmpowerID workflow authorization framework used to determine if the current user in a given workflow process can execute the code contained in that activity against the workflow's target object.
For all the components that we have in EmpowerID, we also have corresponding operation activities. If we create any new component, we won't initially have the operation activity for that component. In such cases, we can request the Product Team to create an operation activity for it, in order to control the CRUD (Create, Update, and Delete) operations on that resource.