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Unit 18. Worklets and More Tasks

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Unit Objectives

Understand why and how to use: Worklets

Timer tasks

Control tasks

Use these features in a workflow

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Worklet

An object representing a set or grouping of Tasks

Can contain any Task available in the Workflow anager

Worklets e!pand and e!ecute inside a Workflow

A Workflow which contains a Worklet is called the "parentWorkflow#

Worklets CA$ be nested

%eusable Worklets& create in the Worklet'esigner $on(reusable Worklets&create in the Workflow'esigner

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Reusable Worklet

)n the Worklet 'esigner* select Worklets + Create

Worklets

Node

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Usin a Reusable Worklet in aWork!lo"

Workletused in a

Work!lo"

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Non$Reusable Worklet

1. %reate "orklet task in

Work!lo" &esiner

2. Ri't$click on ne" "orklet

and select O(en Worklet

3. Works(ace s"itc'es to

Worklet &esiner

NOT)* Worklet

s'o"s onl+ under

Work!lo"s node

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Ti-er Task

Waits for a specified period of time to e!ecute the ne!t taskeneral Tab

Absolute Time

'atetime ,ariable

%elative Time

Ti-er Tab

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%ontrol Task

-tops oraborts the

workflow

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%ontrol O(tions

%ontrol O(tion &escri(tion

.ail e arks the Control task as ".ailed/# The 0owerCenter -erverfails the Control task if you choose this option/

.ail 0arentarks the status of the workflow or worklet that contains the

Control task as failed after the workflow or workletcompletes/

-top 0arent -tops the workflow or worklet that contains the Control task/

Abort 0arent Aborts the workflow or worklet that contains the Control task/

.ail Top(1evel Workflow .ails the workflow that is running/

-top Top(1evel Workflow -tops the workflow that is running/

Abort Top(1evel Workflow Aborts the workflow that is running/

$ote: .ail 2 Complete but set status to "failed#* -top 2 -top e!ecuting after orderly shutdown*

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Create a worklet using: Timer task Control task 3mail task

Create a workflow using the worklet

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ab Revie"

What did we accomplish with this lab4

5uestions4

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When would you use: Worklets4

Timer tasks4

Control tasks4

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