Task

This term has several uses: 6.2

Assignments

Informally, the work that a user does to "perform" or complete an assignment is sometimes called a task. Standard version 5 reports in the Monitor Activity workspace summarize or analyze "task time" — how long the assignment was open. For example, the chart defined by the summary view rule Assign-Worklist.
AgeByWorklistTask is called Timeliness by Task.

Standard properties recording user behavior and performance of assignments have "task" in the property name; for example pyPerformTaskTime.

Flow shapes

Informally, the word "task" sometimes refers to any shape in a flow diagram, not only the assignment shapes.

Scheduled tasks

Users can cause report definitions to execute on a regular schedule. These requests are known as scheduled tasks.

assignment, Project Management Framework, scheduled task

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