You can group sessions in a workflow to improve performance or ensure that targets load in a set order. In the following steps, you create a workflow that runs the sessions s_PhoneList and s_ItemSummary concurrently.
Click
Tools
Workflow Designer
.
Click
Workflows
Create
to create a new workflow.
If a workflow is already open, the workspace is cleared.
The workflow properties appear.
Name the workflow wf_ItemSummary_PhoneList.
Click the
Open
button to select an Integration Service to run the workflow.
The
Integration Service Browser
dialog box appears.
Select an Integration Service and click
OK
.
Click the
Properties
tab and select
Write Backward Compatible Workflow Log File
.
The default name of the workflow log file is wf_ItemSummary_PhoneList.log.
Click the
Scheduler
tab.
By default, the workflow is scheduled to run on demand. Keep this default.
Click
OK
to close the
Create Workflow
dialog box.
The Workflow Manager creates a workflow in the workspace including the Start task.
From the Navigator, drag the s_ItemSummary session to the workspace. Then, drag the s_PhoneList session to the workspace.
Click the
Link Task
button on the toolbar.
Drag from the Start task to the s_ItemSummary Session task.
Drag from the Start task to the s_PhoneList Session task.
The following image shows the workflow wf_ItemSummary_PhoneList:
By default, when you link both sessions directly to the Start task, the Integration Service runs both sessions at the same time when you run the workflow. If you want the Integration Service to run the sessions one after the other, connect the Start task to one session, and connect that session to the other session.