Task Manager

New Features

Process Editor
The new Process Editor tool provides an interactive and easy way to create and modify a Task Manager process (the XML file). From the Developer ribbon, select Tasks > Process Editor satellite icon.
Figure 1.


The Process Editor lets you:
  • Create a process tree structure.
  • Add tasks and define their attributes (including the *command type attributes) by choosing a function directly from a Python file.
Figure 2.


Enhancements

  • Two new columns have been added to the Task Manager:
    Active column
    Select the check box to activate/deactivate a task.
    Run column
    Click the play button to directly run the selected task.
  • Property categories within the Task dialog are collapsible.
  • Task Manager API:
    • The goToTask method supports both a task object or tag as an input argument.
    • A new active attribute has been added to Task objects.
  • The position of the task window (eeposition attribute of the XML file under the process item) can now be set to “undocked”, “left”, or “bottom”.