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Tasks (or workflows) are the primary objects in AWE. A task is a series of steps designed to achieve some result. A task can be built to automate almost any business process. Tasks can perform file transfers, batch data processing, application testing, e-mail transmissions and much more. A task can be composed of a single step or hundreds of steps. Tasks can be started by a user or set to run automatically when triggered by a particular event.
A task is created in the EFT Server administration interface's Advanced Workflows node by clicking New. Priorities, security, error handling and other properties for the new task can then be set in the Task Builder.
Basic steps of creating a task are:
Giving the task a name.
Selecting actions and assigning properties to make up the steps of the task.
Refer to other topics in this section for details.