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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

Worklets – groups of tasks


Group of tasks that can be reused in multiple workflows are called worklets. Worklets are similar to mapplets in Mapping Designer. As you know from the previous chapter, you use mapplets instead of multiple transformations; similarly, you can use worklets instead of multiple tasks. When you wish to reuse the functionality implemented using multiple tasks, a worklet is your answer. As reusing a reusable task itself is a rare occurrence, you do not frequently reuse the logic of individual tasks, which makes using a worklet a more rare occurrence in Informatica. Worklets can surely save your time, as you can reuse an existing functionality. Similar to workflows, worklets should also start with a Start task.

Creating a worklet

To create a worklet, perform the following steps:

  1. In Worklet Manager, navigate to Worklets | Create.

  2. Specify the name of the worklet. For our reference, we are using the worklet name wlt_WORKLET; then, click on Done.

    The start task appears in Worklet...