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# About Steps, Tasks, and Tools

## Tasks

Tasks are the primary entity within King Task Centre. They represent all, or a part of, a distinct business process, containing multiple interrelated steps.

By building tasks, it is easy to design business rules that partially or completely replace a manual process. Each task provides complete control for which steps are used and in what sequence, using visual modelling techniques. A task can be scheduled periodically or triggered real-time.

Task developers can also automatically run tasks through the King Task Centre API, or by integrating the Workflow Web Service into their own applications.

## Tools and Steps

Tools are used to create steps within a task, providing the functional building blocks that interface with common technologies, systems, and applications. They are joined together in a logical sequence to build the business process.

The following tool categories are available:

Tool Category | Tool Icon | Description
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Data Connectors |  | Provides a connection between King Task Centre and an external data source, such as, a relational database (RDBMS) or a CRM system.
Event |  | Triggers a task to be run and exposes data through variables to other Steps within the task.
Execute |  | Executes an external application, procedure or object, allowing developers to control the precise result of this step when utilising proprietary systems.
Input |  | Pulls information into King Task Centre from a source such as a relational database (RDBMS), file format or other structured source and exposes this to other Steps.
Format |  | Consumes and formats information of one type and then exposes that information as another type to other steps.
General |  | Provides specific functionality that cannot be included in the other Tool types or is related to third party applications used with King Task Centre.
Output |  | Consumes information from Input or Format Steps and outputs the information from King Task Centre into another system, application or communication method.

For more information about the tools available in each tool category, go to About King Task Centre Tools

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