Data Flow Management

You can manage targets and data flows in the Data Flows tab of the task editor.

The Data Flows tab contains a table of all the data flows defined for the task, grouped according to their target objects. When a task is run, its data flows are executed in the order in which their target objects appear in the table (the data flows belonging to the target object at the top of the table are run first, then those of the next target object in the table, and so on).

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If you want to execute data flows in parallel or to execute data flows from several tasks, consider using a process.

As needed you can modify existing data flows using the data flow editor.

If you need to create additional data flows you can either duplicate an existing data flow and then modify it to meet your needs or you can create a data flow from scratch.

Duplicate data flows

Duplicating a data flow gives you a good starting point for your new data flow. You can duplicate a data flow in the following ways:

Replicate a data flow from one task to another.
The target task must use the same source and target datastore types as the task of the data flow that you choose to replicate.
Within a task, duplicate a data flow to a different target object using the Copy to new target action.

Create data flows from scratch

You can create a data flow from scratch in the following ways:

Add a data flow to an existing target object (Add Data Flow).
Add a data flow to a new target object (Add Target Object).