PowerDesigner supports all the objects necessary to build activity diagrams.
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                             Object  | 
                             Tool  | 
                             Symbol  | 
                             Description  | 
|---|---|---|---|
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                             Start  | 
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                             Starting point of the activities represented in the activity diagram. See Starts (OOM).  | 
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                             Activity  | 
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                             Invocation of an action. See Activities (OOM).  | 
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                             Composite activity  | 
                             N/A  | 
                             | 
                             Complex activity decomposed to be further detailed. See Activities (OOM).  | 
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                             Object node  | 
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                             A specific state of an activity. See Object Nodes (OOM).  | 
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                             Organization unit  | 
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                             A company, a system, a service, an organization, a user or a role. See Organization Units (OOM).  | 
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                             Flow  | 
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                             Path of the control flow between activities. See Flows (OOM).  | 
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                             Decision  | 
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                             Decision the control flow has to take when several flow paths are possible. See Decisions (OOM).  | 
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                             Synchronization  | 
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                             Enables the splitting or synchronization of control between two or more concurrent actions. See Synchronizations (OOM).  | 
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                             End  | 
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                             Termination point of the activities described in the activity diagram. See Ends (OOM).  |