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Adding a Task

Usage Import and the Report Writer can perform seven kinds of tasks:

1. Analysis
2. Compact database
3. Delete
4. Import
5. IP resolution
6. Title lookups
7. Whois organizations

You can add any of these tasks to a job in any combination. A task can be added more than once. For example, a job might contain three analysis tasks to produce three reports from the same data.

To add a task to a job

1. With the right mouse button, click on the job name or on the name of an existing task in the job.

On the menu that appears, choose New Task.

2. The Task Properties dialog box, shown in the following figure, appears.

3. In the Task Type drop-down list, choose the kind of task you want to add to the job.

The Task Properties dialog box changes to show the fields required for the kind of task you chose.

4. Type the information required for the task. Choose OK when you are finished.

If you click on a job name to start this procedure, the new task appears below the job name. If you clicked on an existing task, the new task appears below that task.

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Setting Task Properties

For each type of task (except for IP resolution and Whois), there are one or more properties you need to supply. The following table lists the properties for each type of task along with brief explanations of them.

Task	Property	Description
Analysis	Analysis	The path and name of the .MFA file that defines the report to be prepared
	Report	The path and file name for the finished report
	Date Replacement Macros	Variables that will be replaced by the current value when the report is created
Compact Database (Access only)	Source Database	The path and name of the database to be compacted
	Destination Database	The path and name for the compacted database
Delete	Boolean Filter	A Boolean expression to be used as the criterion for deleting requests from the database
	Reference Terms	Boolean terms that can be used to build the Boolean expression
Import	Log Data Source	The name of the log data source for which data will be imported
	Log Location	The path and name of the log file that contains the data to be imported
	Date Replacement Macros	Variables that will be replaced by the current value when the report is created
IP Resolution	None
	Date Replacement Macros	Variables that will be replaced by the current value when the report is created
	Site ID	The identification of the site
Title Lookups	Boolean Filter	A Boolean expression to be used as the criterion for looking up the title of the file
	Reference Terms	Boolean terms that can be used to build the Boolean expression
Whois Organizations	None

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