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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By : Rahul Malewar
Book Image

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By: Rahul Malewar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The assignment task


The assignment task is used to assign a value to user-defined variables in Workflow Manager.

Before you can define a variable in the 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 user-defined variables. Navigate to Workflow | Edit | Variables.

  2. Click on the Add a new variable option to add new variables to the workflow, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

    A new variable is created, as shown in the preceding screenshot. The new variable that is 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, navigate to Task | Create.

  2. From the list of tasks, select Assignment Task and specify the name of the assignment task, which is amt_TASK_NAME. For our reference, we are using the assignment...