Let’s add another task named t2.
You will need to modify the suite definition file and add a new script.

You must also create a file t2.ecf in $HOME/course/test. Simply copy t1.ecf.

First, modify the suite definition

  

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It is good practice to suspend your suite before you reload any part of it.
In ecflow_ui right click on the suite and select “Suspend”.
Once you made your change(specified below) you can right-click on the suite and “Resume” it.


# Definition of the suite test
suite test
   edit ECF_HOME "$HOME/course"  # replace '$HOME' with the path to your home directory
   task t1
   task t2
endsuite


As before replace $HOME with the real path to your home directory.


Then you must load the file again:


ecflow_client --load=test.def



This will fail because the suite is already loaded


Because the suite is already defined, you need to delete and reload it first:


ecflow_client --delete=_all_
ecflow_client --load=test.def


Then restart the suite:

 ecflow_client --begin=test

Rather than deleting, loading and beginning the suite every time you can replace
all or part of the suite for example to replace whole suite.


 ecflow_client --replace=/test test.def


or to replace part of the suite:

 ecflow_client --replace=/test/t2 test.def


Python

To delete the suite definition, reload and begin using the Client Server API: First update test.py to add task t2

import os
from ecflow import Defs,Suite,Task,Edit
   
print("Creating suite definition")
home = os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"),  "course")
defs = Defs( 
        Suite('test',
            Edit(ECF_HOME=home),
            Task('t1'),
            Task('t2')))
print(defs)

print("Checking job creation: .ecf -> .job0")
print(defs.check_job_creation())

print("Saving definition to file 'test.def'")
defs.save_as_defs("test.def")

To delete all suites in the server and reload the modified test.def, we could update client.py

import ecflow 
   
print("Client -> Server: delete, then load a new definition")   
try:
    ci = ecflow.Client()
    ci.delete_all()           # clear out the server
    ci.load("test.def")       # load the definition into the server
    ci.begin_suite("test")    # start the suite
except RuntimeError as e:
    print("Failed:", e)


Rather than deleting, loading, and beginning the suite every time you can replace
all or part of the suite. (i.e. to replace the whole suite see below)
Additionally, we do not want the suite to start straight away. This can be done
by suspending the suite in  ecflow_ui before reloading.
However, we will need to remember to do this, each time. To get around this we will
suspend the suite use the Client Server API:
Modify client.py with:


import ecflow 
   
print("Client -> Server: replacing suite '/test' in the server, with a new definition")
try:
    ci = ecflow.Client()
    ci.suspend("/test")              # so that we can resume manually in ecflow_ui
    ci.replace("/test", "test.def")  # replace suite /test with suite of same name in test.def
except RuntimeError as e:
    print("Failed:",   e)

For brevity the examples that follow, will not show the loading of the suite.

What to do

  1. Suspend the suite using ecflow_ui or via python by modifying your client.py to add ecflow.Client.suspend
  2. Create a new task
  3. Create t2.ecf by copying from t1.ecf
  4. Update python scripts test.py and client.py or test.def
  5. Replace the suite
    python: python3 test.py     |  ./test.py
                  python3 client.py  |  ./client.py
    text:      ecflow_client --replace=/test test.def
  6. Resume the suite using ecflow_ui
  7. In ecflow_ui watch the two tasks running. They should run at the same time