Creating a Collaboration Task

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About this task

Within Designer, you can define any available task type as a collaboration task. For more information about collaboration tasks, see About Collaboration Tasks and About the Relationship Between Parent Tasks and Collaboration Tasks.

To create a collaboration task

Procedure

  1. In the Solutions view, open the task in the task editor by double-clicking the task name.
  2. Click the Overview tab.
  3. In the Parent Task Type list, select the task you want to use as the parent task.
    Note: The Parent Task Type list is populated with the names of all the task types available in the workspace. If no other tasks exist, the list is empty. In this case you must create another task to serve as the parent task. Only one task can be specified as the parent task. If you want to develop a "stand-alone" collaboration task (that is, a generic collaboration task that can be used as a child collaboration task with any other task), you can specify the current task name as the parent task. For example, if you are working with Task1, you can select Task1 from the list as the parent task.
  4. Save your changes.

Results

You can continue to configure the task as you would with any other task, as described in Configuring Tasks. In particular, you may want to configure the following: