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Configuring a linear taskflow

You can add multiple tasks to a linear taskflow. However, a linear taskflow cannot include more than one instance of a particular task. You cannot add a taskflow task to a linear taskflow.

To create a linear taskflow, click

New

Taskflows

Linear Taskflow

, and then click

Create

To edit a linear taskflow, on the

Explore

page, navigate to the linear taskflow. In the row that contains the linear taskflow, click

Actions

and select

Edit

Enter the following details for the linear taskflow:

Field	Description
Taskflow Name	Name of the linear taskflow. Names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + - Names are not case sensitive.
Location	Location of the linear taskflow. Browse to the folder where you want to store the linear taskflow or use the default location. If the Explore page is currently active and a project or folder is selected, the default location for the asset is the selected project or folder. Otherwise, the default location is the location of the most recently saved asset.
Description	Description of the linear taskflow.
Schedule	Determines how the task runs. Choose from the following options: Manually. You might want to run a linear taskflow manually to verify that the linear taskflow and tasks are configured properly. To run the task manually, click Do not run this task on a schedule . On a schedule. When you configure a linear taskflow to run on a schedule, include a repeat frequency to run the linear taskflow on regular intervals. To associate the task with a schedule, click Run this task on a schedule and select a schedule. To create a schedule, click New .

To add a task to the linear taskflow, perform the following steps:

Click

Add Task

Navigate to the folder in which the task resides.

Select the task that you want to include in the linear taskflow and then click

Select

Repeat these steps to add additional tasks as desired.

To determine the order in which the tasks run, enter sequence numbers for each task in the task list.

If you want the linear taskflow to stop if a task fails, click

Stop on Error

for the task.

The agent stops running all remaining tasks if any of the selected tasks fail. If you change this option while the linear taskflow is running,

Data Integration

does not apply the change until the next time the linear taskflow runs.

To delete a task from the linear taskflow, click the

Delete

icon next to the task.

Optionally, configure the following email notification options:

Field	Description
Use default email notification options for my organization	Use the email notification options configured for the organization.
Use custom email notification options for this task	Use the email notification options configured for the task. You can send an email to different addresses based on whether the task failed, completed with errors, or completed successfully. Use commas to separate a list of email addresses. When you select this option, Data Integration does not use the email notification options configured for the organization.