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Standard Task

Description

This activity creates a task for specified participants and waits for them to complete it using the associated eForm.

Design Time Configuration

Display Text

Specify the name of the activity that shows in your process.

Form

Choose the form to display for the Task associated with this activity. Click on the vertical ellipse to choose the following options.

OptionsDescription
DefaultWhen you select this option, a dropdown will display all forms available in this process. You can choose a form directly from the dropdown.
JavascriptYou can choose to use Javascript expression.
LiquidYou can choose to use a liquid expression.

Time to Complete

When creating a task, you must indicate a completion time. If the completion time exceeds the specified time, the Task becomes overdue, highlighting the status overdue in the respective user's My Tasks tab. Click on the vertical ellipse to choose the following options.

OptionsDescription
DefaultWhen you select this option, specify the completion time directly.
JavascriptYou can specify time using javascript expression.
LiquidYou can specify time using a liquid expression.

Time to Complete Unit

Specifies the maximum time allowed to complete the associated Task before it is overdue. The time unit can be week, day, hour, minute, or second.

Priority

Specify the priority of the created Task. It can be Low, Normal, or High.

Participant

This activity accepts a single participant, either a single user or a single group. If you select a group, you will get additional settings listed below.

  • Max Participants –When assigning a group to participate in the created Task, you can specify the required number of group members to complete it. By default value is set to 1.
  • All Participants – If you want all group members to complete this activity, turn on this setting. It ignores the Max Participants setting.
  • Reuse participants on subsequent executions of this activity—Specify whether the same participants should execute the Task each time the activity is repeated within the same process instance.

Reuse Participants

Email Notifications

You can utilize Email Templates and configure email notifications for the following task status.

  • Initiation – Specify the task initiation via Email notification.
  • Reminder – Specify the task reminder Email Notification to send as a reminder of the Task. It will send reminder notifications daily until the Task gets into Overdue status.
  • Reassignment – Specify the task reassignment via Email notification. It sends this email regarding the reassignment of a task.
  • Completion – Specify the Task completion via Email notification. It sends this email notification when the Task is complete.
  • Overdue – Specify the Task overdue via Email Notification. It sends this email on Task overdue.