After a task has started, you might need to manage task assignments for the task.
A work item is the assignment of a business entity, such as a task or a process instance, to a person or a group of people for a particular reason. The assignment reason allows a person to play various roles in the business process scenario, for example, for example, potential owner, editor, or administrator.
A task instance can have several work items associated with it because different people can have different roles. For example, John, Sarah, and Mike are all potential owners of a task instance and Anne is the administrator; work items are generated for all four people. John, Sarah, and Mike see only their own work items as tasks on their list of tasks. Because Anne is the administrator, she gets her own work item for the task and she can manage the work items generated for John, Sarah, and Mike.
Sometimes, you might need to change a task assignment after a task has been started, for example, to transfer a work item from the original owner to someone else. You might also need to create additional work items or delete work items that are not needed anymore.
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