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tags:
- automation tasks
description: "This documentation details the Job End task, signaling successful or failed Factory Automation job completion"
---

# Job End

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The task **Job End** marks the completion of a Factory Automation job within a workflow. It is used to explicitly signal whether the job finished successfully or with an error.

![Job End Task Parameters](images/task_job_end_box.png)

## Details

| Fields            | Details                                                                            |
| ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Scope             | Data Platform <br> Enterprise Integration <br> Factory Automation |
| Workflow          | Data flow                                                     |
| `IsProtocol` flag | :material-close:{ style="color: #EF5350" }                                         |

## Inputs

| Name    | Data Type | Description                                                            |
| ------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| inputs  | `Any`     | Auto-generated inputs used to pass contextual data to the Job End task |
| Success | `Success` | Indicates that the job was completed successfully                          |
| Error   | `Error`   | Indicates that an error occurred                         |

## Outputs

The task's outputs are automatically generated and forward data to the subsequent workflow steps.

## Settings

The `General` Tab, includes settings such as name, description and color.

Additional inputs can be defined in the `Inputs` tab:

![Job end task outputs settings](images/job_end_settings.png)

## Behavior

The **Job End** task is used to close the execution lifecycle of a Factory Automation job. It evaluates the incoming execution path and signals the job outcome. Because of this, this task should be placed at the end of the workflow.

![Example job end task workflow](images/example_workflow_jobs.png)