Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide

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Chapter 7      Authoring Processes
  Authoring Task Activities
The following table summarizes the available task activities.
Task Properties That Task Activities Manipulate
The following table summarizes the types of changes you can make to task properties within a task 
activity in your process workflow.
For information about the field parameters, see the online help.
Table 7-1
Summary of Task Activities
Task Activity Name
Purpose
Assign Task
Modify the list of assignees for a task. On this activity, tasks can be 
assigned to a user or group of users. Users can also remove current 
assignees from tasks.
Correlate Alert
Watch for alerts raised before or after a process starts and that are 
related to data from the process, such as its trigger, input parameters, 
activity outputs, or other elements referenced from the process 
workflow.
Find [Task] 
Find tasks that were created in the product and that match the specified 
criteria.
Publish Task to Event Log
Retrieve task information and publish it to the Cisco Process 
Orchestrator Tasks event log on the Process Orchestrator server.
Update [Task] 
Update the properties for a specific task. The properties for the tasks can 
be updated using their respective activities in the Toolbox pane.
Wait for Task to Enter State
Wait for a task to match a specific state before the activity continues. 
If the task reaches a completed state without matching, or if the duration 
expires without matching a specified status, then the activity succeeds 
without matching.
Table 7-2
Summary of Common Actions Against Tasks That Can be Defined in a Process 
Use Case
Description
Modifying automation 
summary properties
Define the properties used to capture relevant diagnostic and state information about the process 
execution. 
On the activity property page, click the Automation Summary
 
tab.
This tab is available only in these activities:
  •
Create Alert
  •
Update Alert
  •
Create Change Request 
  •
Update Change Request
  •
Create Incident
  •
Update Incident
Adding an assignee to a 
task
Change the assignee or other assignment properties for the activity.
On the activity property page, click the Assignment tab.