The Task (Magic xpa 3.x)

The most significant building block of a Magic xpa application is the task. A task is the basic object used to construct programs and implement procedures. The engine executes a task by looping through the data source defined for the task. In interactive tasks, the end user browses through the data source by moving from record to record. This means that the only records processed are those browsed by the end user. In non-interactive tasks, the Magic xpa engine loops through the data source, starting with the first record in the data view and moving to every record until the last record is reached. Once the data source and the task type are specified, the task can be customized by specifying the operations that must occur, while Magic xpa or the end user loops through the data source records.