Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

The assignment task

The assignment task is used to assign a value to user-defined variables in Workflow Manager.

Before you can define a variable in the assignment task, you need to add the variable in Workflow Manager. To add a variable to the Workflow, perform the following steps:

1. In Workflow Manager, open the workflow for which you wish to define user-defined variables. Navigate to Workflow | Edit | Variables.
   
2. Click on the Add a new variable option to add new variables to the workflow, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

   A new variable is created, as shown in the preceding screenshot. The new variable that is created is $$NEWVARIABLE1. You can ...