Starting a step upon completion of another step

Use the Process Model window to specify that a step be started upon completion of another step, regardless if the other step ran successfully or failed.

For example, you are defining steps that populate target tables that are unrelated. However, you want them to run in sequence so that all the tables in the warehouse are updated during the same time period. You can use the Process Model window to specify that the second step is to start after the first step runs, even if the step fails, so that its target table is updated during the same time period as the first step.

To start a step when another step stops running:

  1. Open the Process Model window.

  2. Click (the Data Link icon).

  3. Click (the On Completion icon).

  4. Click the step that is to run first.

  5. Hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse to the step that is to run after the first step.

  6. Release the mouse button.

    A blue arrow that represents the task flow is displayed on the canvas between the two icons.

  7. Click Process --> Save to save the changes that you have made to the process.

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