9.2 Managing your tasks

The My Tasks action lets you check your workflow queue for tasks that have been assigned to you. When a task is in your queue, you need to perform one of the following actions:

NOTE:You must have the appropriate authority to reassign tasks. To reassign a task, you must be an Organizational Manager or User Application Administrator.

Once you’ve claimed a task to work on, you have the ability to take an action that will forward the workitem to the next activity within the workflow. The actions you can perform on a claimed task are described below:

Forward action

Description

Approve

Allows you to give your approval to the request. When you approve a request, the workitem is forwarded to the next activity in the workflow.

Deny

Allows you to explicitly deny your approval to the request. When you deny a request, the workitem is forwarded to the next activity in the workflow and the request is denied. Typically, the workflow process terminates when a request is denied.

9.2.1 Viewing your tasks

To see the tasks that have been assigned to you:

  1. Click My Tasks in the My Work group of actions.

    The list of tasks in your queue is displayed.

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9.2.2 Selecting a task

To select a task in the queue list:

  1. Click on the name of the task in the queue.

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    The Task Detail form is displayed.

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  2. To claim a task, follow the instructions under Section 9.2.3, Claiming a task.

  3. To reassign a task, follow the instructions under Section 9.2.4, Reassigning a task.

  4. To return to the task list, click Back.

9.2.3 Claiming a task

To claim a task to work on:

  1. Click the Claim button.

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    The Form Detail section of the page is updated to include the Deny and Approve buttons, and the appropriate fields become editable.

    NOTE:The fields and buttons on the form will vary depending on which resource you requested. Some forms may include a Refuse button.

  2. To deny the request, click Deny.

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  3. To approve the request, click Approve.

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    The user application displays a message indicating whether the action was successful.

9.2.4 Reassigning a task

To reassign a task to another user:

  1. Click the Reassign button.

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    The top section of the My Tasks page is updated to include the New Assigned To and Comments fields, as well as a Submit button.

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  2. Select the user you want to assign the task to in the New Assigned To field.

    NOTE:An Organizational Manager can only reassign a task to a member of his/her team.

  3. Optionally type a comment to explain the reason for the reassignment in the Comments field.

  4. Click Submit.

    The user application displays a message indicating whether the action was successful.