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How task states in Business Process Choreographer relate to the task status in Business Space
Business Process Choreographer includes the concept of a task state, which is defined as a stage in the lifecycle of a task.
For example, a task can be in the inactive or running state. The same concept in the Human Task Management widgets in Business Space powered by WebSphere is called the task status. In addition, the names and number of the individual task states differ in Business Process Choreographer and in Business Space.
The following table shows how the task states that are available in Business Process Choreographer map to the task status that is shown in Business Space.
Mapping of task state in Business Process Choreographer to task status in Business Space Task state in Business Process Choreographer Task type Task status in Business Space Inactive All task types Not active Ready Collaboration and to-do tasks Available Running Invocation tasks, collaboration and to-do tasks with parallel ownership In progress Finished All task types Successful Failed All task types Failed Terminated All task types Canceled Claimed Collaboration and to-do tasks with single ownership In progress Terminating All task types Canceled Failing All task types Failed Expired All task types Expired Forwarded Collaboration and to-do tasks with single ownership Forwarded Skipped Inline invocation and to-do tasks Skipped Stopped All types of inline tasks Stopped