3.24 Human Task Editor - Access Page - Actions Tab

Use to specify the actions (either access or no access) that specific users (such as the task creator or owner) have for acting on the task content, specify signature policies, and specify task restrictions through callback classes (such as a payload).

Element Description

Check access boxes to permit access

Select the method for displaying task content in this dialog. Note that choosing the currently deselected option causes all settings to reset to their default values.

  • Coarse grained: Displays the task actions as a whole (for example, displays only one approval or rejection)

  • Fine grained: Displays the content actions as individual elements (for example, displays all approvals or rejections)

Task Actions Table

Displays the actions of a task and the task participants who can perform these actions. The following actions are available. Custom actions created in the Outcomes dialog also appear.

Select the checkbox for the actions that a specific user can perform on a task.

  • Select the checkbox for the actions that a specific user can perform on a task.

  • Approve: Enables a participant to approve a task. This selection displays if you selected it in the Outcomes dialog.

  • Acquire: Enables a participant to acquire a task.

  • Adhoc Route: Enables a participant to enter an outcome and then route the task in an ad hoc fashion to the next user who must review the task.

    Note: This choice is available if you selected Add all participants to invite other participants in the Configure Assignment dialog of the Assignment page of the Human Task Editor.

  • Delegate: Enables a participant to delegate the task to another user. In this case, the other user is acting on behalf of the current assignee. When the task is delegated, it resides on both users' worklists until the original assignee or the delegated person acts on it.

  • Escalate: Enables a participant to escalate a task to their manager for further action.

  • Info Request: Enables a participant to request more information about a task.

  • Push back: Sends the task one level back in the workflow. For example, assume the task was routed to the LoanAgentGroup and then to jstein. If jstein now pushes the task back, it goes back to the LoanAgentGroup.

  • Reassign: Enables the current assignee of the task to transfer it to another user or group. In this case, the task is moved from the worklist of the current assignee to the new assignee.

  • Release: Enables the participant to release the task to another participant.

  • Renew: If a task is about to expire, a task assignee can renew the task and request more time to perform the task. This operation is not allowed if the process designer has restricted task renewal on the workflow.

  • Resume: Enables the participant to resume a suspended task.

  • Skip current assignment: Skips the current assignment and moves to the next assignment or picks the outcome as set by the previous approver if there are no more assignees.

  • Suspend: Enables process owners (or users with the BPMWorkflowSuspend privilege) to put a workflow temporarily on hold. Task expiration and escalation do not apply until the workflow is resumed. No actions are permitted on a suspended task (except resume and withdraw).

  • Update: Enables the participant to update the task.

  • View Task: Enables the participant to view a task. If other actions are permitted, the user is able to act on the task. If this permission is removed for a participant, then that participant cannot view the task. By default, this permission is granted to everyone associated with the task.

  • Withdraw: Enables the task initiator to withdraw any pending task if they no longer want to send it through the workflow. A process owner can also withdraw a task on behalf of the initiator. When a task is withdrawn, the business process is called back with the state attribute of the task set to Withdrawn.

Signature policy

Select Configure Policy from the dropdown list to specify a workflow signature policy. Digital signatures provide a mechanism for the nonrepudiation of digitally-signed human tasks. This ability to mandate that a participant acting on a task signs the details and their action before the task is updated ensures that they cannot repudiate it later.

Specify Restricted Assignment

Click Configure Restricted Assignments to specify a callback class to restrict the users to which a task can be reassigned or routed.

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