topic Re: Manual task completion in Alfresco Archive

Manual task completion

kethur — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Hi,I am getting confused with manual task and user task. With user task when the assignee completes the task it moves on to the next task in the workflow. How about manual task, there is no assignee as its manual. who will make sure the manual task is complete? Thanks,Raj

Re: Manual task completion

frederikherema1 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:04:38 GMT

Userguide:

A Manual Task defines a task that is external to the BPM engine. It is used to model work that is done by somebody, which the engine does not need to know of, nor is there a system or UI interface. For the engine, a manual task is handled as a pass-through activity, automatically continuing the process from the moment process execution arrives into it.

The flow just runs over the task, none needs to complete that…

Re: Manual task completion

udayakumar_p — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:40:42 GMT

Hi,
Then what is the use of manual task. Is there any advantage of defining it in the process flow?

Re: Manual task completion

jbarrez — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:16:53 GMT

No. The manual task is used to indicate a manual task, outside of the technical automation of the process. Eg. 'walk over to there and chat with that person'