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# About the Options Tab

About the Format as Flat File Tool

The Format as Flat File tool takes a King Task Centre recordset and converts it into a flat file to be used by another task step or external program. The flat file output can be delimited or fixed width. You can also choose whether the flat file contains data for single or multiple record types.

At the time of writing, only King Task Centre recordsets can be formatted as flat files.

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The Options tab allows you to define how errors in this step are handled at task runtime.

## Adding A New Task Step (cont.)

1. If an error occurs, you can decide whether the step should Continue processing, or terminate the step immediately (Abort Task).

1. Abort step if unallocated tag value found in recordset data is only available if Support Multiple Record Types in File has been enabled in the Main > File tab (see Using the File Tab).

   An "unallocated tag value" is a value in the specified Tag Column that has not been assigned in the Output Columns configuration.

|  | Ignore this option (default behaviour) to force the Format as Flat File tool to only process those rows with the specified tag value. Rows that have the unallocated tag value are skipped.

|  | Enable this option to abort the step if an unallocated tag value is detected. No output is created, and an error is recorded to the King Task Centre Event Log.

1. Click OK to complete the step.

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