Enabling and Disabling EDA Event Emission for a Task Type

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You can choose to emit an EDA event when a task instance of a particular task type is created, updated, or deleted.

Important: The emission of task EDA events and the inclusion of business data per task type are disabled by default. Therefore, even when the global EDA settings are enabled, the Task Engine sends no events or task business data for a particular task type at run time unless you specifically enable event and business data publishing for that task type.

Conversely, if you disable the Produce EDA Events global setting, the Task Engine will emit no events for any task type, regardless of whether you enabled the respective settings for a particular task type.

Note: You cannot define task EDA event emission settings for an individual task type in IBM webMethods Designer. These settings must always be applied in IBM My webMethods Server.

To enable or disable emission of EDA events for a task type

Procedure

  1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > Business > Tasks > Task Engine Administration. All of the task types available in My webMethods are displayed in the Task Configuration window.
  2. Locate the task type you want to work with and click the link in the Task Type ID column.
  3. Click the EDA tab and do any of the following:
    • Select the Emit Event check box to enable an event type for emission.
    • Clear the Emit Event check box to disable the event type for emission.
    • Select the Include Business Data check box to include task business data in the event.
    • Clear the Include Business Data check box to include only basic task data in the event.
    Tip: Click the text in the column headings to select or clear all events.
  4. Click Update.