Data Flow from WFM Core to the Groupware 

Use

You can send assignments as groupware tasks and groupware appointments with a subject line and text.

The groupware tasks and groupware appointments are entered in the resource's to-do list or calendar.

Features

You can publish, change, and delete WFM assignments from the application or WFM Core in the groupware.

You can send WFM assignments as groupware tasks and groupware appointments.

Groupware tasks

Groupware tasks are a resource's capacity assignments. A groupware task contains the planned required capacity and the period in which the work is to be performed, for example, ten days in May. The resource can manually convert groupware tasks to concrete appointments.
If the times of an assignment that has already been published in the groupware are changed, the times are automatically aligned in the groupware when you save. The changes are transferred by the WFM event handler. Changes to texts are not automatically transferred; you have to retransfer the groupware task from the application (in Project Resource Planning, using the Groupware Task function).

If a WFM assignment is deleted, the corresponding groupware task is automatically deleted. In Project Resource Planning, you can also delete only the publishing in the groupware, that is, without deleting the assignment itself (in the Groupware Task function).

 

Groupware appointments

Groupware appointments are concrete appointments, such as Thursday, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

An assignment can only ever be sent to one individual resource, and not to groups.

You can create recurring appointments, such as every Tuesday. Recurring appointments are incorporated in the groupware (provided that they are simple, that is, they do not have any hierarchical rules). Exceptions such as every Tuesday, but not the last Tuesday of the month are not supported.

Assignments always have a category that is used to assign them uniquely to an application. That is, if a resource makes changes to the objects, the changes are transferred back to the application. See also Data Flow from the Groupware to WFM Core.