The lifecycle of a human task involves status and actions. The actions that can be used to interact with the human task can change its status.
When you click the Actions menu in the task inbox, you can view all the possible actions that can be performed on the task. The status of the task is indicated in the Status column.
The human tasks that are created by the Application Integration process pass through the following phases:
•The human task is defined in the human task asset created in Application Integration.
•The task is used in the Human Task step so that the process initiates the task to be sent to the Human Task Inbox. For more information about the human task asset and step, see the Application Integration Design Guide.
•The potential owners, administrators, and stakeholders view the task in the Human Task Inbox.
•The listed potential owners can claim the task. The user claiming the task becomes the task owner who can release, start, or suspend the task.
•Based on the task analysis, the owner then reviews and completes the task.
A task owner can perform the following actions on the tasks that appear in the Human Task Inbox:
Claim a task
Potential owners that are defined in the human task asset receive the task so that they can claim and complete it. A potential owner becomes the task owner by explicitly claiming the task. After a potential owner claims a task, it can't be claimed by other potential owners.
Start a task
When a task is generated by the Application Integration process and you are assigned to work on it, the task appears in the inbox. After you claim an assigned task, you can start working on it.
Review and complete a task
As a task owner, you can review and complete a task. After a task owner resolves a task, the process continues to the next step. If a task uses a guide, the outcomes are available on the task wizard for the task owner to update.
You can manually complete a task that uses the default rendering. The Complete option is available only for tasks that use the default rendering. To complete a task that uses a guide, you must perform all the required actions prompted by the guide.
Suspend a task
You can suspend a human task if you want to resume it later. You cannot perform actions on a suspended task. You must resume a suspended task to perform further actions on the task.
Resume a task
When you resume a task that was suspended earlier, the task restarts from the same state where it was stopped. You can perform further actions on a suspended task only after you resume the task.
Skip a task
You can skip a human task if it is not critical or is no longer needed. Skipping a task makes the task obsolete. As a task owner, you can skip a task only if the Skippable option was enabled during the human task asset creation in Application Integration.
Stop a task
You can stop a human task from running either manually or by completing the task.
Release a task
When you release a task, the task returns to the Unassigned status. The task can then be claimed by users or groups that are listed as potential owners in the human task asset.
Reassign a task
Administrators that are defined during the human task asset creation in Application Integration can reassign a task to another user. For example, if a task owner is unavailable, an administrator can reassign the task to another user. After a is task reassigned, the responsibility and ownership for the task is with the user to whom the task is reassigned.
Human task expiration
A human task that is inactive or unattended for 30 days from the date of task creation expires and gets closed automatically. The task gets purged after 3 days from the expiration date.
The parent process that includes the inactive human task will continue to execute the next step thereby reducing the process execution time. Expiration occurs in the following scenarios:
1Unclaimed or unassigned human tasks that remain in the same state for more than 30 days
2Human tasks that remain in the In Progress state for 30 days