Get familiar as a Builder
Reading about OpCon Continuum only gets you so far. The fastest way to learn it is to do the core Builder tasks in a test environment. Work through this checklist from top to bottom, checking off each item as you complete it. Each item links to the page that explains it in detail.
Goal: design reliable workflows and the building blocks they use.
Build a workflow
- Open Workflows and add a job: select First Job on an empty workflow, or New Job from the Job Tools panel.
- On the Job Definition tab, select Show Job Types and choose one, such as Run Command or a SQL job, and set its parameters.
- Set the job's agent assignment: a specific agent or an agent pool.
- Select Save & Close.
- See Create a workflow.
Order and time the work
- On the Dependencies tab, add a job dependency and try a threshold, resource, or expression dependency.
- On the Frequencies tab, set the job's timing.
- Review the workflow's build settings, including days in advance and build time.
- See Order jobs with dependencies and Schedule a workflow.
Toolkit
- Define a frequency and check the forecast beside its pattern.
- Create a threshold, a resource, a property (try marking one encrypted), and a tag.
- See Define a frequency, Use thresholds and resources, and Manage properties, calendars, and tags.
Events and reuse
- On the Events tab, add an event that fires on a job status such as Failed.
- Add a Null Job to act as a dependency anchor, and a Workflow Container to embed another workflow as a step.
- See Run events on job outcomes, Use a Null Job, and Embed another workflow with a Workflow Container.
Service requests, versioning, and deploy
- Build a service request with inputs and events, then deploy it to an environment.
- Save a change to a workflow to create a new version, then deploy it as Latest or Pinned.
- Find one of your objects using search.
- See Create a service request, Version and deploy a workflow, and Search across OpCon Continuum.
You're ready when
You can build a multi-job workflow with dependencies, a frequency, and an event; use Toolkit building blocks; publish a service request; and version and deploy to an environment.
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