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This information applies to WebSphere Process Server only Tutorial: Working continuously on tasks

This tutorial shows how to use the working-continuously pattern to interact with tasks without using a Tasks List widget to explicitly select the next task to work on. When you complete a task, the next task is automatically displayed. The working-continuously pattern is also referred to as the get-next pattern.

Before you begin

This tutorial uses widgets that contain content from WebSphere Process Server. To run the tutorial, WebSphere Process Server must be installed.

The tutorial uses the pages and widgets of a space that was created from the Advanced Managing of Human Tasks and Workflows template. Some of the steps and information might not apply for your situation. Adapt the tutorial to fit your needs.

In this scenario, the Task Information widget on the Work Continuously page of the space is configured to use a custom query table. This query table contains a filter to return only travel approval tasks. Additionally, the query table includes a query property that provides the start date of the business trip. This property was specified in the process model and it is used as the order criteria for the next task.

About this task

The tutorial is an example of how to use Business Space to continuously work on tasks. In this example, you are a manager of a department. One of your responsibilities is to approve travel requests for the employees in your department.

Three of your employees have submitted travel requests for your approval; one is for a business trip starting tomorrow, another is for a business trip starting in three days time, and the final request is for a business trip that is scheduled to start next week.

Imagine that it is your responsibility to approve the requests. To perform this responsibility, you use Business Space to complete the following steps.

Procedure
  1. You log on to Business Space and open the space that you use for reviewing and approving travel requests.
  2. You switch to the Work Continuously page, your Task Information widget shows the first request that is waiting for your approval. Because of the configured order criteria, the approval request for the business trip starting tomorrow is shown.
  3. You review the information that your employee provided about the business trip, and decide to approve the travel request. You submit the task, and the next travel approval request is displayed automatically. Because of the configured order criteria, the approval request for the trip that is due to start in three days is shown next.
  4. You review the information and add some notes to the task before you call your employee to get some additional information. To ensure that you do not lose the notes you have just made, you save the request.
  5. After you talk to your employee, you decide to reject the request. You submit your decision, and the next task is displayed automatically. The approval request for the trip that is due to start next week is shown.
  6. You review this request and approve the business trip. You are notified that there are no further travel requests waiting for approval.
  7. One of your employees tells you that he needs to visit a customer at the end of the week and that he has submitted a travel request for your approval. On your Work Continuously page, you click Accept available. The new request is displayed, and you can continue to work on it.

Results

You have successfully worked on all the available travel approval requests. You have used the Task Information widget to perform your work without using the Tasks List widget to select the next task.

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