Assign to section

The third section of the form for user action task properties is labeled Assign To. The purpose of the Assign To section is to specify three things:

The person or people who should receive action items created by this task. There is a group of radio buttons at the top of the section for this purpose.
How long it should take for the action item to be completed. There are three fields in the middle of the section for this purpose.
The start time to use when determining the actual time it has taken for the action to be completed. There is a group of radio buttons at the bottom of the section for this purpose.

Both groups of radio buttons in the Assign To section have a down-arrow button to the left of them. Initially only the currently selected radio button is visible in each group. Clicking the down-arrow button alternately makes all the radio buttons visible or just the selected radio button visible.

Here are descriptions of the radio buttons at the top of the Assign To section that specify who should receive action items created by this task:

User

If User is selected, action items created by this task will be assigned to a specified person.

When this radio button is selected, a window pops up allowing you to select a person from among the people who have a user ID to log in to the IBM TRIRIGA Application Platform.

Group

If Group is selected, then anyone in a specified group will be able to accept and complete the action item created by this task.

When this radio button is selected, a window pops up allowing you to select a group.

After someone in the group accepts the action item, the action item will appear only in that person's action item queue.

Assignee from task ____

If this radio button is selected, then the action item created by this task will be assigned to the same user as was assigned to a previous task.

The field to the right of the radio button has a drop-down list that you use to specify a task. The action item created by this task will be assigned to the same user or group that was the assignee of the specified previous task.

The assignee of a workflow's start task is considered to be the currently logged in user.

People BO from task ____

If People BO is selected, then the action item created by this task will be assigned to the user whose My Profile record is associated with a triPeople record associated with the specified task. The field to the right of the radio button has a drop-down list that you use to specify the task.

To the right of the label Expected Time to Complete are three fields that allow you to specify the expected amount of time that action items created by this task will take to complete. These three fields allow you to specify the expected amount of time in days, hours and minutes.

The group of radio buttons at the bottom of the Assign To section is used to specify the start time that will be used to compute the actual amount of time it has taken to complete an action item. There are two choices:

Estimate Start Date from System Date: If this radio button is selected, the actual time to complete an action item is computed based on the system time when the action item was created. Usually you will choose this option.
Estimated Start Date from Field: If this is selected, use the value of a specified Date or Date and Time field as the start time to compute actual time to complete. The field to the right of the radio button contains a drop-down list that allows you to specify the task associated with the record that contains the start time. When you select the radio button, a window pops up to allow you to select a field from the specified record.