Create a new Task from scratch

    So, I need some help.

    My IRC5 knowledge all dates from 2007 or so. And I was pretty good at it then, but right now I'm just faceplanting. This IRC5 is brand new, and I guess things have changed too much.

    I'm trying to create a new Task, intended to be a background task. But when I try to do it from RobotStudio (6.08.01), the "New Task" option is greyed out, regardless of whether I have Write Access or not, or what User level I'm logged in as. And if I try creating the new Task from the pendant, the robot reboots into System Failure mode and I get no opportunity to create a Module for the new Task.

    I'm sure it's just something stupid, but I've spent a few hours at this point going through all my IRC5/RAPID manuals, and I'm just not finding any actual step-by-step directions for creating a new Task.

    So... have mercy on a poor, helpless robot programmer?

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    Addendum: A co-worker helpfully suggested that I try creating the task as a normal "forground" task, create it's module containing Main(), then change the Task over to Background. Which worked a treat -- it's happily blinking an output at me right now.

    Still, it would be nice to know what I was doing wrong in the first place. And why RS was blocking me. So please, feel free to point out how stupid I was being, as long as you include details! :face_with_tongue:

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    I don't know why you were not able to do it thru RS, but for sure you problem with system failure was because of trust level parameter. By default this parameter is set to sysfail, it means when you have a problem in the program and it stop running the system will fail. So when you created the task it was empty and could not start and the system goes to sysfail.

    There's 2 alternatives, change safetylevel to NoSafety or create it first as normal and then change to static or semistatic.

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