Tasks in PhixFlow perform various jobs, including running analysis, archiving, and clearing old managed file and performance log records. Tasks are bundled into Task Plans, which can be requested by users, scheduled, or triggered by actions.
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A Task Plan is a collection of Tasks.
Tasks configured in a Task Plan can be:
Tasks are configured to run in a certain order in a Task Plans, and can be set up to run on a scheduled date at a scheduled time.
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A task plan that contains 1 task with 3 streams will process all streams at the same time. Whereas a task plan with 3 tasks, each containing 1 stream, will run the streams one by one. It will wait for the previous task to complete, before starting the next. If a mandatory task fails, then the next task should not be started. |
The following fields are configured for task plans:
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A list of tasks in the task plan.
To add a task, click and select the type of task you wish to add:
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This section only appears if the Scheduled box in Basic Settings is ticked.
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Each of these elements other than Seconds can be set to a wild card ('*'), meaning all values.
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Day of Week and Day of Month are mutually exclusive. One must be set to '?' (meaning no value specified), and the other defines the days that this Task Plan runs on.
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Month element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 1-12
Month can also be specified as short names e.g. JAN,OCT-DEC
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Day of week element of the scheduled date/time, e.g. 1-7. The week starts on Sunday. So Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, etc.
Day of Week can also be specified as short names e.g. MON,WED-FRI
A day of week name or number followed by an 'L' means the last day of week in the month e.g. 'FRIL' means the last Friday, '2L' means the last Monday.
A day of week name or number followed by a hash ('#') and a number means the Nth day of week in the month e.g. '2#2' means the 2nd Monday in the month, 'FRI#5' means the 5th Friday in the month - if there is no 5th Friday in the month, that is equivalent to specifying no day of week.
If the '#' character is used, there can only be one expression in the day-of-week field, so "3#1,6#3" is not valid, since there are two expressions.
Day of Week and Day of Month are mutually exclusive. One must be set to '?' (meaning no value specified), and the other defines the days that this Task Plan runs on
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Choose one of:
- To
- Cc
- Bcc
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An Expression which governs whether the recipient will receive the email generated by the Task Plan on completion. The internal variables _errors, _warnings, _messages and _suspended can be used in the User Notification Expression.
In particular, the _suspended variable can be used to send an email to a recipient only if a Task in the Task Plan failed - leading to the Task Plan being suspended. Further, using the _errors variable, this expression can be set up so that a recipient is sent an email only if there are more than a certain number of error messages.
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Description
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Analysis tasks run analysis on a number of streams.
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An Archive Task can be created to archive data no longer needed in PhixFlow for processing. When a Stream is archived, PhixFlow creates an Archive Log with useful details of the data archived. Optionally, the archived data can be saved to a file. If this is done, the data can reloaded into PhixFlow using Restore Archive
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A System Task performs system-wide housekeeping activities. These are:
- Deleting and (optionally) archiving Log Messages
- Deleting Managed File entries.
The archiving periods, and whether to archive log messages before they are deleted, are controlled by the following parameters in System Configuration:
Configuring tasks
The following fields are configured for each task:
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A list of streams assigned to the task. This section only appears for analysis tasks and archive tasks.
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The following fields are configured through separate tabs on the form:
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Note that if no streams are added into the archive task list then all streams configured to perform archiving that are not added to any other archive task will be archived.
Form Icons
Form Icons
The form provides the standard form icons.
The form provides the standard form icons.
The form also provides the following icons on the Streams tab:
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Shows the list of Streams to select from.
See Also
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This section contains the additional button 
- this will bring up the list of users in PhixFlow. Drags users into this list to add them as an email recipient.
Doing this will add the users with a blank notification rule, which means that the users will get an email every time this task plan runs. Edit the users in the list to update the notification rule, or add users manually using the 
button. For each user notification rule configure the following settings: