Working with tasks

As mentioned in the previous chapter, tasks are the basic building blocks of Workflows. Every task has a different functionality as every transformation has a different functionality. We need to use tasks as per our requirement in the workflow or worklet. Tasks can be created as reusable or non-reusable.

You can create reusable tasks in Task Developer and non-reusable tasks in Workflow Manager.

Before we talk in detail about each task, let's have a brief understanding of the different tasks we have:

Name of task	Details
Session task	This is used to execute a mapping.
Email task	This is used to send success or failure email notifications.
Command task	This is used to execute Unix/Perl scripts or commands. It can also be used to execute DOS commands in Windows.
Timer task	This is used to add some time gap or delay between two tasks.
Assignment task	This is used to assign a value to Workflow variables.
Control task	This is used to control the flow of the workflow by stopping or aborting...