# Using --start-at-task in AWX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-start-at-task-in-awx/10891>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [November 13, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-start-at-task-in-awx/10891 "2024-11-13T20:40:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![brunojohn23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@brunojohn23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/brunojohn23)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-start-at-task-in-awx/10891/1 "2024-11-13T20:40:25Z")

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Hi, this is my first time on this forum, and want to start off by saying thank you for having it! I’ve been using Ansible for a few years, but am new to AWX. With Ansible, I often will use the --start-at-task option in the command line to start at a specific task in a playbook. I’m looking for a way to use that with AWX. I don’t see it anywhere. I’ve seen people suggest using tags instead, and correct me if I’m wrong, but when using tags, doesn’t only the tasks that have the tag get ran? The nice thing about “–start-at-task” is that it will start at a task and just keep running to the end. I don’t want to have to tag every subsequent task in order to make it run. I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions given.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jiholland](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jiholland/32/11273_2.png) [@jiholland](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jiholland)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-start-at-task-in-awx/10891/2 "2024-11-18T19:50:39Z")

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Welcome to the forum, @brunojohn23!

You can configure the `start-at-task` option in AWX through the API with the [awx.awx.job\_template collection](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/awx/awx/job_template_module.html).

```yaml
- name: Start at task example.
  awx.awx.job_template:
    name: Demo.
    start_at_task: Some task.

```

I don’t think this option is available in the GUI.

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**Author:** ![brunojohn23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@brunojohn23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/brunojohn23)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-start-at-task-in-awx/10891/3 "2024-11-21T00:40:33Z")

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Thank you @jiholland! I was able to achieve this using the AWX CLI after installing awxkit. I used the awx job\_templates modify command.

Here’s basically what my command looked like:

awx --conf.host _my\_awx\_host_ -conf.token _my\_awx\_token_ job\_templates modify _my\_jobtemplate\_id_ --start\_at\_task ‘_my\_ansible\_task\_name_’