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Rescheduling task instances

You can reschedule task instances using new date and time data in Business Process Choreographer Explorer.

You can update, reschedule, stop, and restart the expiration, deletion, and due times of a task. When a task is in the inactive state, after the task is created and before it is started, the task originator can update the reschedule time only to never reschedule or to immediately reschedule. This influences the scheduling of the time setting when the task is started. The task originator can modify the task duration after the task is created and before it is started.

When a task is in the ready, claimed, or running state, you can reschedule the due time and expiration time setting.

To change the due time setting of the task, you must be the owner, starter, originator, editor, or administrator of the task. To change the expiration time setting, you must be the originator or administrator of the task.

To reschedule an task in Business Process Choreographer Explorer.

Procedure

1. In the Views tab, navigate to the Task instance page for the task and click Reschedule.

   For example, on the Process Instances Administered By Me page, click the name of a process instance. On the Process Instance page, click the Tasks tab, and click the name of the task you want to reschedule. On the Task instance page, click Reschedule.

2. On the Reschedule Task page, select the time setting to modify, and specify a date and time for which to reschedule the task. Alternatively, you can specify that the task is never rescheduled or that it is immediately rescheduled.

3. Click OK to reschedule the task.

Manage the lifecycle of task instances

Related concepts:
Changes to the expiration, deletion, and due times for tasks at runtime