You might decide to run a mapping from a workflow so that you can make decisions during the workflow run. You can configure a workflow to run multiple mappings in sequence or in parallel. You can configure a workflow to send emails that notify users about the status of the Mapping tasks.

When a Mapping task runs a mapping configured to run in a Hadoop environment, do not assign the Mapping task outputs to workflow variables. Mappings that run in a Hadoop environment do not provide the total number of target, source, and error rows. When a Mapping task includes a mapping that runs in a Hadoop environment, the task outputs contain a value of zero (0).