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Creating a Workflow

You create workflows in the Workflow Designer. When you create a workflow, you can include reusable tasks that you create in the Task Developer. You can also include non-reusable tasks that you create in the Workflow Designer.

In the following steps, you create a workflow that runs the session s_PhoneList.

Click

Tools

Workflow Designer

In the Navigator, expand the tutorial folder, and expand the Sessions node.

Drag the session s_PhoneList to the Workflow Designer workspace.

The

Create Workflow

dialog box appears.

Open button

Enter wf_PhoneList as the name for the workflow.

The recommended naming convention for workflows is wf_
WorkflowName
.

Click the

Open

button to choose an Integration Service to run the workflow.

The

Integration Service Browser

dialog box appears.

Select the appropriate Integration Service and click

Integration Services appear if they are running. If no Integration Service appears, contact an Informatica administrator.

Click the

Properties

tab to edit the workflow properties.

Enter wf_PhoneList.log for the workflow log file name.

Click the

Scheduler

tab.

The following image shows the contents of

Scheduler

tab:

Edit Scheduler button

Click

to accept the default schedule for this workflow.

The workflow schedule runs on demand by default. The Integration Service runs the workflow when you manually start the workflow. You can configure workflows to run on a schedule. For example, you can schedule a workflow to run once a day or run on the last day of the month. Optionally, click the

Edit Scheduler

button to configure schedule options.

Click

to close the

Create Workflow

dialog box.

The Workflow Manager creates a workflow in the workspace, including the reusable session you added. All workflows begin with the Start task, but you need to instruct the Integration Service which task to run next. To do this, you link tasks in the Workflow Manager.

You can click

Workflows

Edit

to edit the workflow properties at any time.

Click

Tasks

Link Task

In this lesson, the Workflow Manager creates the link for you.

Drag from the Start task to the Session task.

The following image shows the link from Start task to the Session task: