A very useful addition to "edit" is the ability to clone a task, perform some minor modifications to its script, and run it as an "alias". Such a task can run under the control of the ecFlow but has no impact on the activity of the suite itself i.e. it will have no dependencies. This feature can be used to rerun a task for a previous date or to solve transient problems such as full file systems. In this case, the task can be run using a different disk, in order to guarantee the completion of the suite on schedule. The analyst then has time to understand why this condition arises and take the necessary actions.