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 provided this option is enabled in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge. For information on how to enable collaboration in worksteps, refer to the "Defining collaboration tasks" 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 Table 8 describes the dependency.

Table 8. Collaborative Task status
Assigned Activity Workstep Status	Collaborative Task Status	Additional Information
Activated	Active or Suspended or Completed or Terminated
Suspended	Suspended if active
Resumed to activated	Activated if suspended
Completed	Completed if active	Collaborative task information is saved for reporting in Business Process Portal.
Terminated	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 Progress Developer Studio for 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.

If you enable your activity workstep with all the collaboration options in Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge, then the corresponding assigned task displays additional command buttons, Create Collaboration and View Collaboration, in the Task Details page. From this page, you can perform collaboration-related operations, as discussed in the following sections.

In this section:

Create collaboration

View collaboration status

Adding notes

Sending e-mail to collaborator