Exercise 1: Starting Task Assistant Manager

Complexity: Beginner Data Requirement: Installed with software Data Path: \Program Files\ESRI\Task Assistant Manager\Data\Getting Started Goal: Learn how to start Task Assistant Manager and prepare Task Assistant Manager for editing.

To begin this tutorial, you should have Task Assistant Manager Designer installed. Double-click the Task Assistant Manager (TAM) Getting Started.mxd from the following location:

<INSTALL_DIR>\Data\Getting Started

ArcMap will launch with the correct map document. A task assistant workflow is loaded automatically if one is configured for the .mxd you are using.

In this tutorial, no workflow will be automatically loaded initially. However, the tutorial walks through the process of associating task assistant workflows and .mxds, so any subsequent launching of the TAM Getting Started.mxd will cause the associated task assistant workflow to be loaded.

Steps:

1. If necessary, click the Task Assistant window button on the Task Manager toolbar to display the Task Assistant dockable window.

   The Task Assistant dockable window appears.

2. Click the Properties tab on the Task Assistant window.
3. Uncheck the Execute Step(s) check box to prevent the steps from executing when clicked during the design phase.

   You can check this check box during execution and testing.

In this exercise, you opened the Getting Started.mxd file. To proceed to the next exercise, click Exercise 2: Designing a new task assistant workflow.