Defining due dates from Talend Studio

Campaign owners can define task due dates when loading the tasks in the campaign by using a Talend Job. Running the Job creates the tasks in the campaign and label them with the due date and time using the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.

Note: Setting a due date when loading tasks overrides the value which you may have been defined when creating or editing the campaign.

You can use the due dates to filter the tasks in a campaign and facilitate task management.

Procedure

Create a Job with the tMap and tDataStewardshipTaskOutput components to load data from a file into a campaign you have already created in Talend Data Stewardship.
Suppose that the input data flow has a due date column of the type Date for this example.
When computing the due date in the Job, you can consider two main use cases :
- The Service-Level Agreement (SLA) varies based on the data. For instance, you are dealing with customer deduplication, you have two days to solve a duplicate for Tier-1/platinum customers but five days for Tier-2/Gold customers.
- The due date is computed via an external calendar to include days off, for example week-ends and public holidays.
Use the tMap component to map the input data flow to the output flow and to transform the Date type of the due date column to Long.
Configure the tDataStewardshipTaskOutput component to load the tasks into the campaign defined in Data Stewardship.
Run your Job to load the tasks in the campaign with the due date.
From the task list, select the Due Date column and a bar in the chart to restrict the number of the listed tasks to the selected date. This can help you listing the tasks which due soon and prioritize working on them.
Optionally, double-click a value in the Due Date column to open the date and time picker and define a new date and time.

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