Standard Task

Description

This activity creates a task for specified participants and waits for them to complete it using an external form.

The external form could be designed using standard external form technologies such as .NET, Java, or Windows forms. But it's vital to remember that you should only use this activity to stop the form from starting the process.

Design Time Configuration

Display Text

Specify the name of the activity to show in your process.

Form URL

Specify the external Form URL to be used for this Task. The following options are available to specify the URL. Click on the vertical ellipse to choose the following options.

Options	Description
Default	When you select this option, you can specify the URL as a literal text value.
Javascript	You can associate a URL using JavaScript expression.
Liquid	You can associate a URL using a liquid expression.

Time to Complete

You must indicate a completion time when creating a task. 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.

Options	Description
Default	When you select this option, specify the completion time directly.
Javascript	You can specify time using javascript expression.
Liquid	You 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

Specifies 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 you select a group to participate in the created Task, you can indicate the required number of group members who should complete it.
• Unlimited Participants – If you want all group members to complete this activity, turn on this setting. It ignores the Max Participants setting.

Email Notifications

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

• Initiation – Email Notification to be sent on initiating a Task.
• Reminder – Email Notification will be sent as a reminder of the Task. The Control Room will send reminder notifications daily until the Task gets into Overdue status.
• Reassignment – Email notification will be sent when a task is reassigned.
• Completion – Email notification will be sent upon task completion.
• Overdue – Email notification is to be sent on the overdue date of a task.

Example

Refer to the example page for step-by-step instructions on connecting to the Control Room using the APIs.