Developer Workflow Guide

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Tasks

A task in an activity that runs a single unit of work in the workflow, such as running a mapping, sending an email, or running a shell command. A task represents something that is performed during the workflow. The editor displays tasks as squares.

The following table describes all tasks that you can add to a workflow:

Task	Description
Assignment	Assigns a value to a user-defined workflow variable.
Command	Runs a single shell command or starts an external executable program.
Human	Defines actions that one or more users perform on the workflow data. Create a Human task when you want Analyst tool users to analyze the output of a mapping that runs in a Mapping task.
Mapping	Runs a mapping.
Notification	Sends an email notification to specified recipients.
Voting	Not active. Analyst tool users run approval workflows to approve or reject the assets in a business glossary. Analyst tool users do not interact with the workflow features of the Developer tool to configure or run approval workflows.

A workflow can contain multiple tasks of the same task type.

The Developer tool gives each task a default name of

<task type>_Task

, for example

Command_Task

. When you add another task of the same type to the same workflow, the Developer tool appends an integer to the default name, for example

Command_Task1

. You can rename and add a description to a task in the task general properties.

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