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Create the human task implementation

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You will now create the implementation of the human task component.

About this task

A human task is a unit of work performed by a person. There are several kinds of human tasks, such as a To-do task where the system assigns a task to a person who subsequently supplies the necessary information and completes the task, which results in the information being returned to the process.

To create the human task implementation:

Procedure

In the assembly editor, double-click the HelloWorldTask component. Click Yes on the Open window indicating you do want to create the implementation. Click OK on the Generate Implementation window indicating you want to create the implementation file in the project's root folder. The human task editor opens, as shown here:
Strictly speaking, there is nothing more you need to do here, but you want to learn! So click in the white space of the human task editor canvas near the bottom. Then select the Properties view below the editor and click the Details tab.
In the Properties view, select the check box Bind the lifecycle to the invoking component, as shown here:

This action ensures that outstanding instances of this task (to-dos) will be cleaned up when the process that invoked the task is cleaned up.
Select the Duration tab in the Properties view. Set the Duration until task expires to 6 minutes, as shown here:

This way, it will clean itself up if you forget to claim and complete it in a reasonable amount of time.
In the editor canvas, note the People Assignment (Receiver) section, as shown here:

By default, anyone can create instances of this human task (in other words, create to-dos) and anyone can claim those instances and work on them. However, you can restrict this capability. Select the Everybody cell in the Potential Owners row and focus the Properties view. There is only the Assign People tab. In the People assignment criteria field, select User Records by user ID, as shown here:

In the Assign People page, scroll down to the table and set the value of userID to the user ID that was specified for the server at install time. If you did not change the user ID, then specify the default user ID admin, as shown in the following figure:

In the People Assignment section near the top of the editor, you see that the table has changed, as shown in the following figure:
Optional: Note the Escalations section, as shown here:

In addition to specifying a duration for how long users must process a task before it expires, you can also specify a series of escalation actions in case the task is not claimed in a certain amount of time after it is created (Ready state), or in case it is not completed in a certain amount of time after it is claimed (Claimed state).

Actions include creating a new to-do task for someone else or sending an email notification. This is where you set these escalations up, using the green "plus" button when one of the state icons is selected.

For both durations and escalations, you can specify elapsed time not only with absolute hours, minutes or days, but you can also specify it with a business calendar. By creating and specifying a business calendar, you can identify noncontiguous time. For example, you can specify that escalation should only occur after two business days have elapsed.
Save and close the human task editor and then save your work in the assembly editor.