Tasks and Task Groups

Within workflow you use tasks for the following purposes:

• To use methods of an object type in a workflow ( single-step task)

• As a framework for defining a workflow ( multistep task)

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

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.

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

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

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:

• Definition of a Task

• Definition of a Multistep Task

• Definition of Task Groups