General Tools

Provides specific functionality that cannot be included in the other Tool types or is related to third party applications used with TaskCentre.

General Tools - Decision

The Decision Tool is used to control the flow of the process based on the result of one or more expressions. The decision works by testing a sequence of Boolean (true/false) conditions in turn until an expression returns `true' then that branch of the process is followed. For example, a Task could behave differently if it is Friday as opposed to any other day of the week on which the Task runs.

General Tools - Text Parser

The Text Parser Tool is used to create a Task Step that extracts specific textual data from variables populated by other Steps and then maps the data to other variables for use in further Steps.

General Tools - Data Filter

The Data Filter Tool is used to create a Task Step that extracts a subset of data from a recordset produced by a Database Query (ODBC) or Call Procedure (OLEDB) Step and provides the data for use in further Steps.

General Tools - File Management

This tool allows files on disk (local or UNC) to be renamed, moved, copied or deleted. This can be applied to specific files fed from a previous step or to a wild carded list of files.