Submitting a task

Tasks for execution by the Task Server can be submitted from either VBScript or Visual Basic user interface extensions, but the recommended method is from VBScript. To allow tasks to be invoked by the Meridian client applications, there is a Task object in the VBScript object model. The Task object is a property of the Vault object. It implements three methods required to compose and submit tasks: Set, Submit, and Reset.

First, the Set and Reset methods are used to set the correct parameter values for the task. These values are the specifics of the task to be performed and they are temporarily stored on the client. When the Submit method is called, these values will be passed to the Task Server where they are stored until the task is executed.