Creating Decision Tasks

Use

A decision task is only required for steps of the type user decision. You should only create a new decision task if:

  • You want to restrict the possible agents.

  • You require another decision text.

A decision task must always refer to the object type DECISION with the method Process.

Procedure

Always create a new decision task as a copy of the standard decision task supplied by SAP. This is task generic decision task ( TS00008267).

  1. Go into the step definition of a decision task. A decision task is referenced there in the field Task. To make a copy of this task, select .

  2. Specify a new ID and new name for the task and assign it to a package.

  3. Process the relevant text types on the tab page Description. The task description is displayed to the recipient when the user decision is executed. For more information, see Maintaining Task Texts.

  4. Add the elements that you inserted into the description text as text variables (or object references) to the task container as mandatory import elements. To do this, choose Container.

  5. Process the possible agents of your decision task. Choose Start of the navigation pathAdditional Data  Next navigation step  Processor Assignment  Next navigation step  MaintainEnd of the navigation path.