Edit task

This task allows you to customize an existing task.


If you customize one of the standard delivered Tasks, your updates will be overwritten if you later upgrade to a new MetaSwitch version. Instead, you are recommended to clone the existing task and then modify the cloned copy to create your customized version (which will be left unchanged by the upgrade process).

Enter the following information.


Parameter

Description
Task type Select the action performed by the task you want to edit. Values:
  • Add object task
  • Update object task
  • Remove object task
  • Check object task
Task name The name of the existing task you want to edit. Select from the drop-down list of all tasks of the specified type (add, update, remove, or check).
Workflow Task Groups Specify the task groups to which this task belongs. This allows you to control which users can use the task. Select one or more of the following values:
  • Workflow task group A
  • Workflow task group B
  • Workflow task group C

Click the Next pushbutton to display the steps that this task is divided into.

For each step, complete the required fields and press Next to continue to the next step. Note that any fields in bold text are mandatory and you will not be able to move to the next step until these fields are completed (the Next pushbutton will be inactive).

When a step is not mandatory, you do not need to enter any information, you can just click on Next to jump to the next step. When all mandatory steps (excluding the confirmation step) have been completed, you can click on Finish to jump straight to the final step (the confirmation step), which is as follows.