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Automating Workflows Using Tasks Flashcards

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What are sets of preconfigured steps that interactively guide users through specific workflows?

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ArcGIS Pro tasks

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A task is a set of steps that might contain what?

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tools, views, layer settings, and actions to complete a workflow

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What are three reasons to use tasks in ArcGIS Pro?

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Interactive tutorial: Tasks can be used as a training tool for ArcGIS Pro itself or for organization-specific workflows.

Implement a best-practice workflow: Often, there is more than one way to accomplish an objective in ArcGIS Pro. If there is a specific workflow that produces the desired results, a task provides an efficient method for distributing that workflow to your users.

Improve the efficiency of a workflow: Tasks can improve the efficiency of workflows by controlling layer settings (for example, visibility or selectability), opening and closing views, or having embedded tools and commands.

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What are three ways to access a task in ArcGIS Pro?

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Open a task item: A user might be given an existing ArcGIS Pro project (or open an ArcGIS Pro project package) that contains one or more tasks. These tasks can be found in the Catalog pane under Tasks.

Import a task file: A task can be saved outside a project as an Esri task file (.esriTasks). An Esri task file can be added to any ArcGIS Pro project and opened in the Catalog pane under Tasks.

Create a task item: Someone who is an expert about a workflow can write a task to share his or her expertise. The author for the task is usually familiar with the actions that compose the task and with the workflow’s expected result. By creating and distributing the task, other users can complete the workflow to achieve similar results.

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What are the properties of a task step (four categories)?

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General
Actions
Views
Contents

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What is the interface that is used to create tasks called?

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Task Designer pane

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In the Task Designer, the task author can provide information about what?

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the task or task step, specify what tools or commands that the task step will run, how the user will proceed through the task, what layers that task users will be able to interact with, and what project views will be open.

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What are the two ways to create a task in the Task Designer?

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Record actions

Manual creation

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How does the Record actions method to create a task in the task designer work?

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The task author can click the Record button in the Task Designer and then proceed through the workflow normally. The Task Designer will record all the settings, commands, and tools that the author uses. Each command or task will be separated into its own task step. After the task author is finished recording, the Task Designer can be used to refine and adjust the task.

This method is recommended for most users because it can save time and reduce mistakes.

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How does the Manual creation method to create a task in the task designer work?

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Instead of recording a workflow and adding details and adjustments later, a task author can choose to manually create each step of the task. This method requires more planning and testing to make sure that each task works as it is intended.

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What can contain task groups or individual tasks and is used as a container for a workflow? It’s title is shown at the top of the Tasks pane. To access a task, it is opened from the Catalog pane.

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task item

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A task is made up of several what? They can control what layers and views a user will see; it can control how a user interacts with different layers by setting their visibility, selectability, and labeling; and it can also contain embedded interfaces and tools so that users spend less time trying to find specific commands in the interface. It is a small piece of the workflow. Ideally, it is short and streamlined.

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Task Steps

There is also a type of step called a palette step that will allow users to choose from several tools to complete part of the task’s workflow.

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What is a single, repeatable workflow, with task steps to guide users through it?

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Tasks

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Related tasks can be added to a what? Which is used to organize tasks within a workflow.

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Task groups

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Task Designer pane: Which tab? The task group, task, and task step versions are all included in this tab. It is where the task author creates a name and a description for the component. It also has other fields where the task author can name the task step and provide instructions for how to complete it. Finally, it is where the task author can set up the step behavior.

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Task Designer Pane > General tab

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After users complete one task step, they must be able to proceed to the next. There are four options for step behavior, what are they?

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Manual
auto-run
auto-proceed
automatic

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If users must provide information to run a tool and then perform another action before they proceed to the next step, what step behavior is the appropriate choice. this step progression means that users will perform the action, and then they will click a button when they are ready to move to the next task step.

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Manual

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If a tool or command is run at the beginning of the step that does not need any input from the user, but the user then must complete another action, it is the best option. In it, a tool or command will run automatically, and users will click a button when they are ready to move to the next task step.

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Auto-run

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This option is best when the user must provide some information for a tool or command to run, but then the task can proceed to the next step. This option is for when users must perform an action, but the task can proceed to the next step after that action has been completed.

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Auto-proceed

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If a task step requires no user input or action to run and proceed to the next step, it can be set to this step behavior. If the user does not even need to know that the task step is running, it can also be hidden. This step behavior should be used carefully because the task user has no way of preventing it from running. This behavior is for when the task can run the action and proceed to the next step with no input from the task user.

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Automatic

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Which task steps behavior can be made optional so the user can skip if they would like to?

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manual, auto-run, or auto-proceed

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Which tab of the Task Designer is where the commands or tools used in the task step are set up?

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Actions tab

In addition to the main geoprocessing tool or command for the task step, other actions can be added to the step. On the Actions tab, the task author can set up when these actions will be executed. Other actions can be included as the task step begins, immediately before a command or tool is run, or as the task is exiting the task step. These actions can be used to calculate values, for quality assurance (by making sure that selections are correct and verifying that actions were completed during the step), to clear selections, or in several other ways.

On the Actions tab, you can save selections, or features created or modified during a task step, into a temporary container called a variable. In later task steps, you can call that variable again as an input to the task step.

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Which tab, the task author can specify what ____ of the project (maps, scenes, or layouts) are open and active for the task user to interact with.

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Views tab

The view must already exist within the project for the task to open it. On the Views tab, task authors can manually set up which views are open and active, or they can capture their own current settings.

On the Views tab, you can control what maps, scenes, and layouts are open and active.

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Which tab of the Task Designer is where the task author can control the settings for the different layers in the project. On the tab, the author can specify which layers are visible, selectable, editable, snappable, selected, or labeled.

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Contents tab

For instance, if the task is for urban planning and the task user must select street furniture points, the task author can make sure that the Street Furniture layer is visible and that it is the only layer that is selectable. This way, the task user can select all the necessary points without having to worry about selecting nearby street lines or building polygons.

Task authors can create these layer settings manually or capture their own current settings.

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What are intended to be repeatable workflows that could apply to several different projects (for example, an urban planning task that was created for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, would probably be useful in Toronto, Ontario)?

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Task items in ArcGIS Pro

A properly designed task can be shared with other agencies or groups, even if they are using different maps or projects.

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Task sharing considerations, list 3.

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1) Confirm is that the task is built around a repeatable workflow.
2) Make sure that the new project has the same type of data.
3) The new task should be validated when it is added to the new project.

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There are two ways to share a task, what are they?

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Using an Esri task file or

Making it part of a project package

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One way to share a task is this. It can be saved outside an ArcGIS Pro project and can be easily imported into other ArcGIS Pro projects. It will contain only the task, but the data will not be saved along with the task. What is it?

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Esri task file (.esriTasks)

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One way to share a task is this. If you want to use the task as part of a larger project. It will contain all the data, symbology, and tools used in the original project, along with the tasks that are part of the project.

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Project package

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T/F: A task must be part of a task group.

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False

31
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What is the file extension for an ArcGIS Pro task file?

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.esriTasks

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T/F: Using the Record functionality is a recommended best practice for setting the tool or command for a task step.

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True

33
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Where can you find a list of errors after you import a task file into a project?

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The Tasks pane

34
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When is creating a palette step an appropriate choice?

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When there is a repeatable workflow within the task WRONG

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T/F: An ArcGIS Pro task file can be imported to a project using a geoprocessing tool.

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False

36
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Which two options are ways that you can share a task? (Choose two.)

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Create a project package.

Export as an .esriTasks file.

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T/F: You should use automatic step behavior as often as possible to avoid user error.

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False

38
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Which three options are benefits of creating an ArcGIS Pro task? (Choose three.)

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Beginning users can use a task as a tutorial.

Workflows can be made more efficient.

Subject matter experts can share knowledge and expertise.

39
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How can you make sure that the features that are selected at the end of one step are still selected at the beginning of the next step?

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Set up a verification action to make sure that the features are selected. WRONG

40
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Which four options are tabs in the Task Designer? (Choose four.)

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General, Actions, Views, Contents

41
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Where do you set up or modify the properties of a task step?

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Task Designer

42
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Who can create an ArcGIS Pro task?

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Any ArcGIS Pro user

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In ArcGIS Pro, where does the user interact with the task steps?

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Tasks pane

44
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Which three actions should be done when sharing a task? (Choose three.)

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Make sure that the target data is similar to the original data.

Make sure that the workflow is repeatable.

Validate the newly imported task and address errors.

45
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During a task step, the user must provide some input to run a geoprocessing tool. After the tool runs, the user does not need to do anything else before continuing to the next step of the task.

What step behavior is most appropriate for this task step?

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Auto Proceed

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