Goal-directed description of an activity.
The following need to be distinguished:
In an activity, which can be a step in a workflow definition, reference is always made to a task.
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.
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.
Within PD tasks can be viewed from two distinct perspectives:
For human resource purposes, tasks are the individual duties, responsibilities or assignments performed at your company. For example, answer phones, design publications and develop software could all be tasks.
Tasks help to describe jobs and positions. It is by relating specific tasks with jobs and positions that you describe the duties to be performed in your company. You can also relate tasks with work centers and organizational units.
Describes a single job in a a maintenance, service or quality notification.
The task is defined using a code from the task catalog and can be explained by additional text, if required.
You can define tasks for a notification and also for individual notification items. The tasks go through different statuses.
A person responsible for implementing the task is specified.
The system can automatically execute jobs linked to the notifications 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".
Specific event to be performed by a project team member. Several tasks make up an activity in the Roadmap.
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.