Programming Mechworks PDM > DBWCommandShell > Commands Reference > TaskManager

Description

This command allows to start programmatically the definition of a new task to be processed later by the TaskManager. The TaskCreate method should be used together with the TaskAppend (to append documents to the task definition) and the TaskSubmit (to submit the task definition as a new effective task of the TaskManager) shell methods.

Syntax

call DBWShell("TaskCreate taskType taskWsName taskPriority [execApproveScript [approvePrevRev [processRelatedDocuments]]]")

Parameter

taskType	task definition type: 1: Checkin 2: Approve 3: Plot 4: Script
taskWsName	involved working server name
taskPriority	task execution priority:1: low 2: normal 3: high
execApproveScript	When taskType=2 (approving) 0: do not run OnApprove.LST script 1: execute OnApprove.LST script Note: the script will be run for each task action queued with the TaskAppend api.
approvePrevRev	When taskType=2 (approving) 0: approve current revion 1: approve previous revision
processRelatedDocuments	0: only UNIQUE_ID passed to the TaskAppend are processed 1: (default) consider also related children.

Example

DBWShell("TaskCreate 2 myPc 1 0 0 0")