Creating Groups
Groups are used to manage the parallel execution of tasks. Objects processed via a group show the name of the corresponding group in the Attributes tab (start type).
Procedure
- Click the
button in the toolbar and a window listing all the available object types opens. Select the type "Group" (JOBG).
- Assigns a suitable name and open the Group object. Click the Attributes tab
- First determine the maximum number of tasks that can run parallel. A queue processing one task after the other is created if more than one task is started which uses this group.
- The group can either be activated manually, via workflow or schedule. This includes those tasks that were started in a group and are displayed in the Activity Window with the status "Registered". Those tasks are processed as soon as the group is started with one of the above mentioned options.
- Use the optional setting of the Runtime tab if the execution of the group should be monitored.
- Script elements can be stored in the Process tab.
- The option Generate at runtime - which is available in the Attributes tab- can be used to influence the group's generation time. With this option activated, the script is not processed at object activation but only when it is started. These two points in time are not necessarily the same (when the object is executed within the frame of a workflow, for example).
- Groups are executable objects.
There are various other settings that can be specified for Group objects. You can find details in the documentation about the individual tabs.
