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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

You're reading from   Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x Enterprise data warehousing and intelligent data centers for efficient data management solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788471220
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rahul Malewar Rahul Malewar
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Downloading and Extracting Informatica PowerCenter Software FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Admin Console 3. Understanding Designer Screen and its Components 4. The Lifeline of Informatica - Transformations 5. Using the Designer Screen - Advanced Features 6. Implementing SCD Using Designer Screen Wizards 7. Using the Workflow Manager Screen 8. Learning Various Tasks in Workflow Manager screen 9. Advanced Features of Workflow Manager Screen 10. Working with Workflow Monitor - Monitoring the code 11. The Deployment Phase - Using Repository Manager 12. Optimization - Performance Tuning

Assignment Task


Assignment task is used to assign a value to user-defined variables in workflow Manager.

Before you can define a variable in assignment task, you need to add the variable in Workflow Manager. To add a variable to the workflow, perform the following steps:

  1. In Workflow Manager, open the workflow for which you wish to define the user-defined variable. Go to Workflow | Edit | Variables:
  2. Click on the Add a new variable option to add a new variable to the workflow as shown in the previous screenshot.

A new variable is created as shown in the previous screenshot. The new variable created is $$NEWVARIABLE1. You can change the name of the variable and its data type.

Creating an Assignment Task

To create an Assignment Task in Workflow Manager, follow these steps:

  1. In Workflow Manager, go to Task | Create.

  1. From the list of tasks, select Assignment task, and specify the name of the Assignment task, amt_TASK_NAME. For our reference, we are using amt_ASSIGN_VALUE as the assignment task name....
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