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Within workflow you use tasks for the following purposes:

You use a task group to collect tasks used in a common context.

Note Note

Within SAP Business Workflow the terms task and single-step task are treated as equivalents, as are the terms workflow and multistep task. Only when it is not clear from the context are the terms single-step task and multistep task used.

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Prerequisites

To create a single-step task, you must know the methods to be executed with the task (see also: Maintenance of Reference to Object Method).

To create a multistep task, you must be familiar with the business process you wish to map as a workflow definition, its flow and its individual steps. When a workflow is created, the associated multistep task is created automatically as well.

Features

You can process tasks of the following types:

  • Standard task (single-step task, task type TS)

  • Customer task (single-step task, task type T)

  • Workflow template (multistep task, task type WS)

  • Workflow task (multistep task, task type WF)

  • Task group (task type TG)

    Note Note

    Only cross-client single-step tasks (= standard tasks) and cross-client multistep tasks (= workflow templates) can be created now.

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When a workflow task/customer task is copied, the task type is changed automatically to workflow template/standard task.

For more information, see Creating and Maintaining Tasks. Also see the relevant task type: