Running a Basic Workflow

Complete the following steps to run a simple workflow and task:

• After logging in to Epsilon, click the Workflows tab.

• Click Create a Workflow.

• Enter a name for the workflow, comments if required, and then click Save and Continue. The Editing Workflow page opens.

• Under the Task Tree tab, click the “+” sign to add a task.

• On the Please choose a task type window, verify that the task Type is Run Shell and click Add. The Create page for a new task opens.

• Under the Script tab, click the Edit button under the Code field to make the field editable.

• In the of type dropdown, select Epsilon script.

• Enter the following command in the Code field:

#script
print “Hello World”

• Click Save.

• In the Save Script As window, verify the Name and Type and then click Save.

• On the Editing Workflow page, click Save and Run, and then click Save on the resulting window. The workflow report displays whether the workflow ran successfully.

• Click the task to view the output of the workflow.

Workflow output screen

When you click a workflow task to view its output, it results of running the workflow displays on four distinct tabs on the output screen - as displayed in the figure above. Each of the four tabs displays the following information:

• Output: The output as determined in the workflow task(s)
• Script: The script, or the code, that was written in the task(s) that resulted in the output
• Properties: The properties that were created at runtime
• Information: Additional information about the running of the workflow