Understanding and changing the flow of execution

As said in the introduction, a Job must start with a START Job entry. All the entries that follow it are executed in a sequential way, following the direction given by the hops. Also, the execution of the destination Job entry does not begin until the Job entry that precedes it has finished.

Look at the following example:

Job with a simple flow

According to what we just said, we can deduce that:

  1. This Job creates a folder.
  2. After the folder is created, the Job copies some files (most probably to the new folder).
  3. When the files are copied, the jobs executes a Transformation. We can guess that ...

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