Collaborating tasks

You can create collaboration for your assigned task, provided the activity workstep, associated with your task, is enabled with collaboration support at design-time in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge.

You can also communicate with your collaborator using E-mail or chat, provided these options are enabled in OpenEdge. For information on how to enable collaboration in worksteps, refer to the "Using Collaboration Tab" section of the OpenEdge Getting Started: Developing BPM Applications with Developer Studio.

The status of collaborative task varies according to any change in status of the assigned activity workstep. The following Table 6 describes the dependency.

Table 6. Collaborative Task Status
Assigned Activity Workstep status	Collaborative Task status	Additional information
Active	Active or Suspended or Completed or Terminated
Suspend	Suspended if active
Resume to activate	Activated if suspended
Complete	Completed if active	Collaborative task information is saved for reporting in Business Process Portal.
Terminate	Terminated if active	Collaborative task information is saved for reporting in Business Process Portal.

Note: Changes made to the collaboration properties of the workstep in OpenEdge are effective only to new collaboration tasks and not to existing tasks.

In the Task List page, all collaboration-supported tasks are marked with the

icon, as shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11. Assigned Task List page with Collaboration-supported tasks

If you enable your activity workstep with all the collaboration options in OpenEdge, then the corresponding assigned task displays the following additional command buttons in the Task Details page as in Figure 12.

Figure 12. Assigned Task Details page (with Collaboration support)

From this page, you can perform collaboration-related operations. For more details refer to Business Process Portal User’s Guide.