Difference between revisions of "Task Elements"

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What are Task Elements?

Task Elements (also known as Nodes) are the basic building blocks of a Presence Task. Task Elements are dragged into the Task Design View and joined together using a mouse gesture. In the example below (from the Task Designer interface) there are four such Task Elements:

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Task Elements are split into the following categories - please follow the category links to read more about the available Task Elements under each category:

Flow Control

These Task Elements control the flow of the Task. Many Tasks have a simple start and end point and a linear flow. Others will be more complex, requiring run-time decisions and branching based on the current data.

• Schedule Nodes
• Decision Point Nodes
• Miscellaneous Flow Control Nodes
  • Start of Task
  • End of Task
  • Error Handler
  • Throw Exception
  • Passive Node
  • Log Entry
  • Sleep For n Seconds
  • While Node
  • Switch Node
  • Fork Execution
  • Join Forked Threads
  • Start Synch Block
  • End Synch Block
• Event Notification Nodes

Data Access

These Tasks Elements are designed to load information from sources external to Presence and populate the Data Table with the queried information.

• SQL Statement Nodes
• Object Monitor Nodes
• XML Query Nodes
• Mail Scanner Nodes
• Web Services Nodes
• JSON Node
• LDAP Query Nodes
• Flat File Parser
• Data Table Nodes (subsection)
• Variable Nodes (subsection)
• Transaction Control Nodes
• Context XML Nodes

Data Formatters

These Tasks Elements are designed to format and write the contents of the current Data Table to external sources.

• CSV Writer
• HTML Table Writer
• Basic XML Writer
• XML Document Writer
• XSLT Processor
• Padded Text Writer
• Custom Data Formatter Standard Option
• Custom Data Formatter PDF Option

Custom Nodes

Allow you to create and re-use custom nodes to call Presence Tasks or Java classes

• Custom Nodes

Actions

These Tasks Elements are designed to perform actions.

Alerts

• Send Email
• Send Fax
• Send SMS
• Broadcast Messages

File Actions

• Read Text File
• Read Binary File
• Write Text File
• Write Binary File
• Rename File
• Copy File
• Delete File
• Parse File Action

Other Actions

• Dynamic Task Call
• Call Native Program
• FTP Upload
• Scorecard Collector
• Create Graph
• AS400 Action
• Socket Client Action
• Socket Server Action

Barcodes

• Generate Bar Code
• Read Bar Code

Enterprise Messaging

• JMS Producer
• JMS Consumer