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Creating a mapping task

Define general properties of the task on the

General

page.

To create a mapping task, click

New

Tasks

, and then select

Mapping Task

and click

Create

If you want to create a mapping task based on a template, open the mapping template in the Mapping Designer and then click

Actions

New Mapping Task

If you create a task based on a template from the

New

dialog, the task opens in the mapping task wizard which uses a different user interface. For information about creating a mapping task in the task wizard, see Defining a mapping task.

To edit a

mapping

task, on the

Explore

page, navigate to the

mapping

task. In the row that contains the task, click

Actions

and select

Edit

Configure the following fields:

Field	Description
Name	Name of the task. Task names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + - Maximum length is 100 characters. Task names are not case sensitive.
Location	Project or folder in which the task resides. 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 task. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Runtime Environment	Runtime environment that contains the Secure Agent to run the task. In a sub-organization, you can't run a mapping task on a Secure Agent group shared by the parent organization if the task is based on a mapping in SQL ELT mode or advanced mode.
Mapping	Mapping associated with the task. To select the mapping, click Select and navigate to the mapping that you want to use. To open the mapping, click View .

Configure the job priority and target duration if the

mapping

task is based on a mapping in advanced mode.

The following table describes the properties:

Property	Description
Job Priority	Priority to schedule the job. High-priority jobs are scheduled sooner than medium-priority or low-priority jobs.
Target Duration (seconds)	Time in seconds to complete the job. You can view whether the target duration was met or exceeded when you monitor the job. The actual time to complete the job depends on the advanced cluster infrastructure and the runtime strategy.