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 Refresh 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.
- 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.