Use the Human Workflow Diagram widget to manage
tasks in a workflow.
A human workflow consists of tasks and various other interactions that
control the processing of the workflow. The diagram shows only the tasks.
Other interactions involved in the workflow are indicated by icons. Workflows
can also contain collections of tasks indicated by shaded areas in the diagram.
In these areas, you can perform additional actions specific to the type of
collection.
If a task does not belong to a workflow or if you do not have reader access
to the process, the diagram is empty.
In the
Human Workflow Diagram widget, you can perform
the following actions on the diagram:
- Change the size of the diagram by using the slider at the top right of
the diagram. Move the slider to the left to make the diagram smaller and to
the right to make the diagram larger.
- Navigate around larger diagrams by moving the yellow rectangle in the
overview window.
- Show the status information for the task and the labels on the links between
tasks by clicking the Show details icon in the upper
right corner of the diagram.
- Refresh the status information by clicking the Refesh icon
in the upper right corner of the diagram.
- Show failure information for an interaction in the workflow that is not
a task by clicking the failure indicator on a link. This indicator appears
whenever such an interaction fails. You can use this information to contact
your process administrator. Select the error information with the mouse and
press Ctrl+C to copy the information to the clipboard.
You can perform the following actions on the tasks in the diagram:
- See a description of the task and who has previously worked on it by clicking
the task and selecting Details.
- See more information about a task by clicking the tasks and selecting View.
- Work on a task by clicking the task and selecting Edit.
The information about the task is shown in the Task Information widget.
- See the dependent tasks that are related to a task by clicking the task
and selecting Show related tasks.
If you are working with a collection of tasks, you can also perform the
following actions.
- If the collection of tasks represents a collaboration area, you can skip
over tasks that are not needed, go back and redo others, or cancel skip requests
if you are authorized to do so.
- If the collection contains multiple instances of the task collection that
are processed in parallel, iterate through the instances to show the status
of the tasks.