send an email 
publish a news item
run a report
run a job
run an agent
update a database
call a Web service
run an import
run an export
run a content maintenance task
run a metric task
An agent can perform one or more tasks that you define for it. You can use some tasks to notify the right people quickly about a change in a business event so they can take appropriate action. Other tasks can help you to automate a work flow.
An agent can perform its tasks all in sequence or all in parallel. That is, you can specify that each task is performed in the order you choose. Or you can specify that tasks be performed at the same time.
You can specify tasks that do the following:
send an email
publish a news item
run a report
run a job
run an agent
update a database
call a Web service
run an import
run an export
run a content maintenance task
run a metric task
Before you specify an event condition, you should understand how often different tasks are performed.
| Task type | Number of times performed |
| Run a report; run an agent; run a job; run an import; run an export; run a metric task; run a content maintenance task | Once |
| Update a database; call a Web service | Once per event instance |
| Send an email | Variable For more information, see How Multiple Events Affect Email Messages. |
| Publish a news item | Once |
