The building blocks of the human task editor

Compose your own human task using a combination of the following building blocks

Roles and verbs

Roles and verbs interact to identify staff members according to their access rights. More specifically, roles define the permissions, and verbs define the members.

To understand how this works, you have to keep in mind that a task is assigned first and foremost to a role, not an individual. Each staff member in this role group has the permissions assigned to the role as a whole. Verbs act to further refine the list of members who can claim the work. Officially, a verb is a database query that retrieves a list of members from the runtime engine.

Staff settings

Use the staff settings to determine which roles can interact with your human task.

There are six possible roles to choose from, and those that appear will depend on the type of human task that you are working with.

Client settings

Use the client settings to determine how the staff members will interact with the tasks.

There are two default settings:

Escalation settings

Use the escalation settings to specify how long to wait for a task to complete, and which role to notify when it doesn't.

There are three possible settings:

Related concepts
Human task editor
Tutorial: assign a task
Related tasks
Creating human tasks
Adding roles to your human task
Customizing an existing client for your human task
Creating an escalation for your human task

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