Custom Task Guide

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Introduction Overview

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Managed File Transfer

includes over 60 built-in tasks to satisfy most of the business processes needed by organizations for moving, securing, and translating data. However, in some cases your company may need a custom task to provide additional functionality that is not provided in the base package. For example, a custom task could be built to integrate with an internal application, such as an ERP system, through a proprietary interface.

Custom tasks are fully integrated into

Managed File Transfer

, so they offer several benefits (versus calling external programs) for providing additional functionality in your Projects:

Custom tasks can be chosen quickly (just as easily as the base tasks) within the Project Designer.

You can create input and output parameters (with custom labels) for the task, which the user can easily fill out within the Project Designer.

Custom tasks will be easy to identify and work with in the Project outline.

Job Managers in

Managed File Transfer

will be able to more effectively hold or cancel jobs which contain custom tasks.

Log messages from the custom task will be included into the Project’s Job log.

This guide provides Java programmers with the knowledge they need in order to build, package and install custom tasks in

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Custom Task Guide

Custom Task Guide

Introduction Overview

Introduction Overview