Information carrier in the Workbench Organizer for entering and managing all changes to Repository objects and Customizing settings performed by employees within a development project.
A task is assigned to a change request.
Function at task level in the R/3 System.
Tasks perform business or technical functions. You call them either by choosing functions in menus or by entering a transaction code in the command field.
In the consolidation system, consolidation is performed using tasks. The tasks represent the business-economical aspect of the consolidation process. The user can define the tasks according to the various business transactions to be processed.
For example, to accommodate the statutory dimension of consolidation the user can define that the interunit eliminations are to include the elimination of interunit payables and receivables, revenue and expense, and investment income.
A description of a job or a position.
Tasks can be linked to organizational units, work centers, and additional object types.
Work that is planned for a service, maintenance or quality notification.
The task is defined using a code from the task catalog and can be explained by additional text if required.
Tasks can be defined both for a notification and for individual notification items. Different statuses can be assigned to a task.
A responsible partner is defined to execute a task.
The system can automatically execute jobs linked to the task as follow-up actions, and can trigger a workflow.
With a task, you generally process an actual object of an object class, for example you create a customer master record. A taks consists of a set of task functions, such as "Save", "Delete" or "Select".
Smallest unit within the task list of the scheduler.
A task type is assigned to each task. The following task types are available:
Multiple tasks can be grouped into a task group.
Example:
The task group "Day of Period-End Closing" includes the task "Transaction 'Close period'".
Lowest level of the ASAP Roadmap. Contains instructions to be followed by a member of the project team. A set of tasks is called an activity.
A combination of different physical and/or mental work assignments that are to be carried out independently by the task carrier in order to achieve a concrete target end.
Example:
The following are a Sales Manager's tasks:
A type of activity in Activity Management containing information about anything one or more employees needs to do by a certain date. In contrast to a business activity, the task is not linked to any business partners apart from the employee responsible. A task can also be indicated as private which means that it can only be viewed by the person who created it.
Examples of tasks include preparations for a presentation or a reminder to send a birthday card to a friend.
Goal-oriented, business activity description defined by a method of an object type. Object type and method must be defined in the Business Object Repository.
A task in the workflow context is a single-step task of the type standard task. Single-step tasks can be of the type standard task or the type customer task. Only the type standard task will be supported in the SAP System in the future.