Once you have created your organizational structure and staff assignments, you can create and edit task profiles using Simple Maintenance. You may have to create new tasks if the task catalog in your company has changed. You can include the new tasks in existing task profiles or create new task profiles.

You create task profiles to which you assign task objects - these objects can be jobs, positions or organizational units. This creates relationship records between the task and the other object. This is relationship A/B 007.

Using the task profile you can determine which tasks are specific to organizational units, jobs and positions. The specific assignment of tasks is important when determining agents using SAP Business Workflow. Possible agents are determined when you assign tasks.

You can describe tasks in as much or as little detail as you want and include them in your task catalog. In this way the traditional job descriptions can be replaced at little cost. It is recommended that tasks are assigned to jobs. Tasks should only be assigned to positions if they are specific to those positions. Tasks assigned to jobs are automatically passed on to the assigned positions.

By assigning tasks to organizational units, jobs and positions you determine an abstract responsibility for that task. Thus, positions are given to potential planned employees and not to actual people.

This ensures that important information is not lost when, for example, an employee leaves the company. You can call up this information from the system at any time.

You can create and edit task profiles for organizational units, positions and jobs using Simple Maintenance in the Change Task Profile screen.

You can edit established task profiles by:

• Assigning additional tasks
• Removing a task assignment by either delimiting, or deleting, the relationship between the object and the task.

You can edit tasks in Simple Maintenance. On the Change Task Profile screen, select a task and choose Goto ® Task Maintenance. The Display Task dialog box appears. By choosing Display <-> Change you access change mode in which you can carry out maintenance.

1. If you work in the overall view, you can assign any type of task.
2. If you work in the Human Resources view, you can only assign Workflow tasks and templates.