When you configure a Notification task, you specify the task output values that you want to assign to workflow variables on the

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tab. The Data Integration Service copies the Notification task output values to workflow variables when the Notification task completes or fails. If the task aborts, the Data Integration Service does not copy task output values to workflow variables.

For example, a Notification task produces a start time output value that indicates when the Data Integration Service started running the task. The workflow cannot directly access this Notification task output data. To use the data in the remainder of the workflow, you assign the start time output to a workflow variable named NotificationStartTime. Then use the NotificationStartTime workflow variable in an expression for a conditional sequence flow. The Data Integration Service runs the next object in the workflow if the Notification task started before the specified time.

General outputs include output data produced by all tasks such as the task start time, end time, and whether the task successfully ran.