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• For those input tasks that let you choose a specific source location, use different locations. You could
have two LPD input tasks, each one retrieving files from a different LPD queues, for instance.
Related topics:
• Configurations and Processes (Page 5)
• Tasks (Page 0)
2.1.7 Tasks
How are tasks performed and which ones are available?
Tasks are placed along flowcharts referred to as a processes in PlanetPress Watch/Server jargon. All tasks are
action tasks, since by definition any task will perform an action, but to simplify things, tasks have been
grouped as either input, action or output tasks. Note that some tasks, such as the SOAP Client task, can be
used as both an input and an output task.
A) Input tasks receive or retrieve data from the “outside world” and pass it to action or output tasks. B) Action tasks
receive data from input tasks or from other action tasks and pass it down to other action tasks or to output tasks. C)
Output tasks receive data from input or action tasks and send it to the “outside world”.
Since each process must begin with an input task and end with at least one output task, when you edit a
process using PlanetPress Watch/Server Configuration, the program will only let you select tasks from the
appropriate group. If you try to change the first task in a process, for example, PlanetPress Watch/Server
Configuration will only let you make a selection among input tasks.
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