Tasks app
The Tasks app is where tasks related to publishing workflows are collected. Users can go to the app to see who owns a task and perform actions on it. To open the app, click the arrow next to Tasks in the upper-right corner.
The task counter shows the combined total of new tasks and tasks assigned to the current user. The totals are displayed separately in a tooltip. A green dot only appears next to the counter if there are new tasks.
You can sort tasks by clicking any of the column headers. In the Status column, you can filter tasks by status.
Tasks
Tasks make collaboration better. Magnolia uses
human
tasks in the publishing workflow. For example,
when an editor publishes a page, the system creates an approval task and
sends it to the publisher group. Under the hood, we use the jBPM
workflow engine’s user
task feature. See also
Custom tasks
and User tasks
in Magnolia workflow documentation.
Tasks are a single persisted entry shared by different users and groups. Given appropriate access rights, one or more users can see the same task and its status.
Task status
Tasks can have one of the following statuses:
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New: Tasks waiting to be assigned to a user.
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Assigned: Tasks assigned to a user.
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Resolved: Tasks that were successfully resolved.
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Failed: Tasks that were approved but did not run successfully.
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Scheduled: Tasks scheduled for later publication.
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Archived: Tasks that are archived but still stored in the repository and that can be reopened if necessary.
Example tasks in the publishing workflow
This is how tasks work in the Travel Demo. See Default roles, groups and users for more about permissions assigned to each user.
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Eric, a content editor, publishes a page. The task is sent to the
publishergroup. All members of the group can see the new task. -
Peter, a content publisher, assigns the task to himself. Other publishers (for example,
superuser) can see the task and the assignee. -
When Peter opens the task, he can:
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Approve & publish: Publishes the page.
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Reject: Opens a comment dialog and sends a message to the editor (Eric).
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Preview page: Opens the page in preview mode in the Pages app.
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Show changes: Opens the page in diff view in the Pages app.
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Peter approves the request. If the task fails for technical reasons, it can be retried.