You can create task files using any standard editing tool. Using a tool that provides you with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for inserting custom tags and JSP elements is helpful, but not required.

For additional information on creating tasks, see Using the Info*Engine Task Editor.

You should save your task files using the .xml extension. Info*Engine recognizes files with this extension as tasks.

Info*Engine provides a directory structure under which you should save your task files. Using this directory structure allows you to execute tasks from a web browser URL and to specify a relative path to the task when executing it from within another task or from a JSP page.

Windchill is configured to look for Info*Engine tasks within the <Windchill>/tasks directory. You must save your tasks somewhere within the tasks directory. Ideally, you should create a directory hierarchy to organize your tasks, such as <Windchill>/tasks/com/company/CreateGroup.xml.