Adding tasks to an extension - the details

If you have not already read about important IBM Director classes now would be a good time to do that.

The task creation APIs in IBM Director are very flexible and powerful, and they are, therefore, complex. However, most tasks can be defined simply by following the directions on this page.

The following steps are the basic steps to define tasks:

  1. Create a null parent task, if necessary.
  2. Decide what kind of task you need. Create the task.
  3. Add targeting if you need it.
  4. Write your application-specific code to perform the task action.
  5. Add help information.
  6. Add links to the help index.


If you will have more than one task, create a parent task

Create the parent task.

Decide what kind of task you need

Click on the link below for the type of task that you want to create.

Interactive Non-interactive