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HRunyon
New Contributor III
3 years ago

Update Task via Connector BR

I have a single Connector BR that makes several independent API calls to external systems. When it's called the Task Progress window sits at 11% with the message "Parsing Source Data". I would like t...
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HRunyon's avatar
HRunyon
New Contributor III
3 years ago

Thank you. My issue is that I cannot simply add a parameter to the Connector entry point. I need to declare the object and set the TaskActivityID correctly. I just cannot find out what the ID is, as it does not appear to be passed at all into the Connector.

Dim extArgs As New ExtenderArgs
extArgs.TaskActivityID = "XXXXX"

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franciscoamores
Contributor II
3 years ago

Hi,, try this

Using dbConnApp As DbConnInfoApp = BRApi.Database.CreateApplicationDbConnInfo(si)
' Get task id
  Dim taskId As Guid = EngineWorkflowRunningTask.GetRunningTaskActivityID(dbConnApp, si.WorkflowClusterPk)
    ' Other actions...
 End Using

 

  • HRunyon's avatar
    HRunyon
    New Contributor III
    3 years ago

    Hi franciscoamores,

    Thank you for this, I'm almost there. I can get the taskID via the your snippet but found out the TaskActivityID property on the ExtendedArgs class is READ-ONLY. I'll keep trying but thank you all for pointing me in the right direction.

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      franciscoamores
      Contributor II
      3 years ago

      Anyway I don’t think you can increase the percentage from connector BR as it is automatically updated by onestream after each import sub-step.

      you can do from extender BRs that you execute from a DM job