Suspend Flow Control

You can suspend work process flow for work order or task records that have it defined. For example, if you want to start a particular work order or task manually, you could suspend flow control on that record.  It will remain suspended indefinitely, until you remove the suspension.

Removing the suspension restarts the flow, and any successor work orders or tasks with completed predecessors will go into progress. Work orders and tasks with no predecessors go into progress when their parent does. The last completed child under a parent rolls its completion up to the parent. Usually you suspend a set of tasks, often under the same parent. For example, to delay the automatic starting of one whole phase of work until some other condition allows it to do so, or to make changes to that set – such as inserting new tasks, deleting tasks, changing the precedence logic, etc.

To suspend flow control on a work order:

  1. In the Work Order Tracking, Changes, or Releases application, display the record on which you want to suspend flow control.

  2. On the main application tab, at the header level, select the Suspend Flow Control? check box. The system suspends work process flow on the work order and all of its tasks.

  3. If you want flow control to remain in process for individual tasks, display the tasks in the Tasks table window, and clear the Suspend Flow Control? check box at the task level. This will allow flow control at the task level, but not affect the suspension at the work order header level.

Note: The Tasks table window is found on the Plans tab.

  1. Click Save Record .

To suspend flow control on individual tasks:

  1. In the Work Order Tracking, Changes, or Releases application, display the record for which you want to suspend flow control. On the main tab of the application, leave the Suspend Flow Control? check box cleared.

  2. In the Tasks table window, display the details of the task for which you want to suspend flow control. The Tasks table window is found on the Plans tab.

  3. In the tasks table window, select the Suspend Flow Control? check box for the correct task. The system suspends flow control for the task.

  4. Click Save Record .