User-defined; Allows you to select one or more Business Services that this record belongs to.  (You also can Check All or Uncheck All Business Services for this record.)

You can select up to 62 Business Services for any record type, and enter a maximum of 2048 characters for each Business Service.

If the Business Service Visibility Restricted Universal Controller system property is set to true, depending on your assigned (or inherited) Permissions or Roles, Business Services available for selection may be restricted.

User-defined; Allows you to specify the time zone that will be applied to the task.

Options:

• – System Default –
  Time zone is based on the value of the Task Time Zone Preference Universal Controller system property: Server or Inherited.
• Server (xxx)
  Where (xxx) is the time zone ID of the server; time zone is evaluated in the time zone of the server.
• Inherited
  Time zone is evaluated in the time zone of the Parent Workflow or Trigger / Launch specification in the case there is no Parent Workflow.

Information about why the task will be put on hold when it starts.

Priority for acquiring a resource when two or more tasks are waiting for the resource. This priority applies to all resources required by the task.

Options: 1 (high) - 100 (low).

Default is 10.

If enabled, the task instance will continue to hold Renewable resources if the task instance fails. Renewable resources will be returned only if the task instance status is either Complete, Finished, or Skipped.

Protocol to use for the operation.
 
Options:

• HTTP(S)/REST
• SOAP

Default is HTTP(S)/REST.

HTTP authentication scheme to use.
 
Options:

• - - None - -
• Basic

Default is - - None - -.

If Credentials Variable - Web Service#HTTP Authentication = Basic; Indication of whether the Credentials Variable - Web Service#Credentials field is a reference field for selecting a specific Credential (unchecked) or a text field for specifying the Credentials Variable - Web Service#Credential as a variable (checked). Use the format:

${variable name}.

The variable must be a supported type as described in Variables and Functions.
 

Version of the HTTP protocol to use.
 
Options:

• 1.0
• 1.1

Default is 1.1.

Allows the Web Service task to use a TLS/SSL connection that is considered to be insecure.

If Protocol = HTTP(S)/REST; Type of HTTP request method to use.
 
Options:

• GET
• POST
• PUT
• PATCH
• DELETE

Default is POST.

If Protocol = SOAP; Version of the SOAP protocol to use.
 
Options:

• 1.1
• 1.2

Default is 1.2.

URL of the target service, excluding query parameters.
 
Optionally, you can include query parameters directly on the URL; however, the query string must be properly URL-encoded. In other words, the URL must be valid. For specifying unencoded query parameters, use URL Query Parameters.
 

Any query parameters to be encoded as a query string and appended to the URL.

Parameter values support Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Protocol = HTTP(S)/REST and HTTP Method = POST, PUT, or PATCH; Type of HTTP payload.
 
Options:

• Raw
• Form Data

Default is Raw.

If Protocol = HTTP(S)/REST; MIME type of the message body.
 
Options:

• application/javascript
• application/json
• application/xml
• text/html
• text/plain
• text/xml
• Other...

No default.
 

If HTTP Payload Type = Form Data; Any parameters to be encoded and added to the message body.

Parameter values support Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Protocol = SOAP; Type of SOAP payload.
 
Options:

• Body
• Envelope

Default is Body.

If Protocol = SOAP; Value of:

• SOAPAction HTTP Header field in SOAP 1.1
• action parameter in SOAP 1.2

If HTTP Payload Type = Raw; Specification for whether the payload is defined directly in this form (task Details) or if it is a reference to a script that contains the content of the request payload.
 
Options:

Default is Form.

If Payload Source = Form; Request payload.

Supports Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Payload Source = Script; Script that contains the content of the request payload.

Supports Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

HTTP headers

Values support Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Protocol = SOAP; Element of the SOAP response to be captured as output.
 
Options:

• Body/First Element
• Body
• Envelope

Default is Body/First Element.

Specification for whether or not to enable the auto clean-up of Web Service response output upon task instance completion or, if the task instance is within a workflow, when the top-level workflow instance completes.

Specification for how to process the response in order to determine success or failure.
 
Options:

• Default Success Status Code Range
• Success Status Code Range
• Failure Status Code Range
• Success Output Contains
• Failure Output Contains

Default is Default Success Status Code Range.

If Response Processing = Success Output Contains or Failure Output Contains; Output type that the Response Processing mechanism should assume when evaluating the output. If the expected output is XML or JSON, it is valid to specify Text. However, when specifying XML or JSON, the output must be XML or JSON, respectively; otherwise, the parsing will fail and the path expression evaluation will return no matches.
 
Options:

• Text
• XML
• JSON

Default is Text.

XPath Expression (if Output Type = XML) or JSON Path Expression (if Output Type = JSON) to be used when evaluating the response output.

Refer to https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp and https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath respectively for more details.

If Output Type = XML or JSON; Strategy to take when applying the condition Operator and Value against the Path Expression matches.
 
Options:

• Match Any
• Match All
• Match None
• Count

Default is Match Any.

If Response Processing = Success Output Contains or Failure Output Contains; Condition operator to evaluate in combination with the specified condition Value.
 
Options:

• =
• !=
• >
• >=
• <
• <=
• regex

Default is =.

User-defined; maximum number of times that the Controller should retry this task after it has started and gone to a failed state.

User-defined; number of seconds between each retry.

User-defined; If the task instance is in the Failed status, indicates whether or not the following will be suppressed until all scheduled retry attempts (a Maximum Retries value has been entered or Retry Indefinitely has been enabled) have been made:

• All Actions (Abort, Email Notification, Set Variable, SNMP Notification, and System Operation) defined for the task instance on a Failed status.

• Workflow conditional path processing; any Successors waiting on a failure path will not be released.

• Task Monitors will not be notified of the Failed status. Also, any Task Monitor task that has a Time Scope in the past will disqualify any matching task instance in the past with a Failed status if the task instance is scheduled for automatic retry and for which Suppress Intermediate Failures has been enabled.

• Any Workflow containing the Failed task instance will not transition to the Running/Problems status.

Amount of time to wait before starting a task from the time that it was launched.
 
Options are:

• – None –
• Time
• Relative Time
• Duration
• Seconds

If Wait To Start = Time or Relative Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the wait time to another day.

Valid values:

• -- None --
  • If Wait To Start = Time; Advance to the next day if the specified wait time is before the time that the task instance is eligible to start; that is, all dependencies have been met. For example: it is not being held, and it is not waiting on any predecessors.
  • If Wait To Start = Relative Time; Advance to the next day if the specified wait time is before the task instance Trigger Time or, if there is no Trigger Time, before the task instance Launch Time. In the latter case, when a task instance is within a workflow, it will inherit the Launch Time of the top-level parent workflow task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.

Default is – None --.

Amount of time to delay the start of a task, after it has been launched, from the time that it is eligible to start; that is, all dependencies have been met. For example: it is not being held, it is not waiting on any predecessors, or there is no wait time specified.
 
Options are:

• – None –
• Duration
• Seconds

Specification for whether or not to apply the Wait To Start and Delay On Start specifications only if the task is in a Workflow.
 
Options are:

• - - System Default - -
  Apply the Wait To Start and Delay On Start specifications as defined by the System Default Wait/Delay Workflow Only system property. (Default is yes.)
• Yes
  Apply the Wait To Start and Delay On Start specifications only if the task is in a Workflow.
• No
  Apply the Wait To Start and Delay On Start specifications whether or not the task is in a Workflow.

Required if Late Start is enabled.

Options:

• Time - Flag the task if it starts after the specified time.
• Duration - Flag the task if it starts a certain amount of time after the programmed start time. The task must have a specific start time.

If Late Start Type = Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the late start time to another day.
 
Valid values:

• -- None --
  Advance to the next day if the specified late start time is before the Created time of the task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.
• Nth Day
  Advance to a specific number of days in the future.

Default is – None --.

If Late Start Type = Duration; Duration (amount of relative time) after which the task is considered to have started late.

For a task within a workflow, the duration is the period between the time the workflow starts and the time the task itself starts. For example, a task might have a Late Start Duration of 60 minutes. If the workflow starts at 9:00 a.m. but the task itself does not start until 10:30, the task has started late.

For a task that is not within a workflow, Late Start Duration has meaning only if the task has been held upon starting. For example, if a task has a Late Start Duration of 60 minutes and the Hold on Start field is enabled, if the task is not released from hold within the amount of time specified in the Late Start Duration field, the task has started late.

Required if Late Finish is enabled.

Options:

• Time - Flag the task if it finishes after the specified time (see Late Finish Time).
• Duration - Flag the task if it finishes a certain amount of time after the programmed finish time (see Late Finish Duration). The task must have a specific finish time.
• Average Duration - Flag the task if it finishes before the average duration (see Average Instance Time) for the task, less an offset (see Late Finish Offset Type), if specified.

If Late Finish Type = Average Duration;

Options:

• Percentage
• Duration

If Late Finish Offset Type = Duration;

Options:

• Seconds
• Minutes
• Hours

If Late Finish Type = Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the late finish time to another day.
 
Valid values:

• -- None --
  Advance to the next day if the specified late finish time is before the Created time of the task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.
• Nth Day
  Advance to a specific number of days in the future.

Default is – None --.

Required if Early Finish is enabled.

Options:

• Time - Flag the task if it finishes before the specified time (see Early Finish Time).
• Duration - Flag the task if it finishes a certain amount of time before the programmed finish time (see Early Finish Duration). The task must have a specific finish time.
• Average Duration - Flag the task if it finishes before the average duration (see Average Instance Time) for the task, less an offset (see Early Finish Offset Type), if specified.

If Early Finish Type = Average Duration;

Options:

• Percentage
• Duration

If Early Finish Offset Type = Duration;

Options:

• Seconds
• Minutes
• Hours

If Early Finish Type = Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the early finish time to another day.

Required if Early Finish Type or Late Finish Type = Average Duration; Estimated amount of time it should normally take to run this task. The Controller uses this information to calculate the User Estimated End Time on a task instance record.

User Estimated Duration is used when the Average Duration is not available; for example, on the first launch of a task.

Type of CP Duration; used in conjunction with the CP Duration field. For example, for a CP Duration of two minutes, specify 2 in the CP Duration field and select Minutes in this field.
 

Specification for whether or not there is a restriction for this task to be run, skipped, or held.

Options are:

• -- None -- No restriction for this task.
• Run Restriction for when this task will be run.
• Skip Restriction for when this task will be skipped.
• Hold Restriction for when this task will be held.

If Execution Restriction on a task is Run or Skip, then when it is part of a Workflow that is being launched, the Restriction Period is evaluated. The task instance will be skipped if Execution Restriction is Skip and the date is within the Restriction Period or Execution Restriction is Run and the date is not within the Restriction Period. Execution Restriction can be set to Skip with a Restriction Period of - None -, meaning the restriction is always active and the task will be skipped when it is part of a Workflow.

If Execution Restriction = Run, Skip, or Hold; Period of time when the task is restricted.

Options are:

• – None –
  No period of restriction for this task.
• Before
  Restriction is valid if the date is before the Before Date value.
• After
  Restriction is valid if the date is after the After Date value.
• Span
  Restriction is valid if the date is before the Before Date value and after After Date value.
• On
  Restriction is valid if the date is one of the Date List values.

System-supplied; Amount of time the task took to run the last time it ran.

System-supplied; Lowest amount of time this task has taken to run.

System-supplied; Average amount of time this task takes to run.

System-supplied; Highest amount of time this task has taken to run.

System-supplied; Number of instances in the database for this task.

Saves updates to the record.

Displays a list of any parent Workflow tasks for this task.

Deletes the current record.

Allows you to specify actions that the Controller will take automatically based on events that occur during the execution of this task.

Events are:

• Task instance status
• Exit codes
• Late start
• Late finish
• Early finish

Actions are:

System-supplied; Sequentially assigned number, maintained per task, representing the creation order of the instance.

User-defined; Allows you to select one or more Business Services that this record belongs to.  (You also can Check All or Uncheck All Business Services for this record.)

You can select up to 62 Business Services for any record type, and enter a maximum of 2048 characters for each Business Service.

If the Business Service Visibility Restricted Universal Controller system property is set to true, depending on your assigned (or inherited) Permissions or Roles, Business Services available for selection may be restricted.

Name of the task that was run to create this task instance. Click the icon to display Task Details for the task.

System-supplied; Source from which this task was launched.

Options:

• Scheduled Trigger

  If the instance was directly launched by a scheduled trigger, the Trigger (trigger_id) column is assigned the UUID of the scheduled trigger.

• Trigger Monitor

  If the instance is a monitor associated with monitor trigger, the Trigger (trigger_id) column is assigned the UUID of the monitor trigger.

• Trigger Now / User Interface

  If the instance was directly launched by a Trigger Now command, the Trigger (trigger_id) column is assigned the UUID of the trigger.

• Trigger Now / System Operation

  If the instance was directly launched by a Trigger Now command, the Trigger (trigger_id) column is assigned the UUID of the trigger and the Source Instance (source_instance) column will be assigned the UUID of the instance invoking the System Operation.

• Trigger Now / Web Service

  If the instance was directly launched by a Trigger Now command, the Trigger (trigger_id) column is assigned the UUID of the trigger.

• Trigger Now / Command Line
  If the instance was directly launched by a Trigger Now command, the Trigger (trigger_id) column is assigned the UUID of the trigger.

• Workflow

  If the instance was launched by a workflow, the Workflow (workflow_id) column is assigned the UUID of the workflow instance.  Likewise, the Source Instance (source_instance) column will also be assigned the UUID of the workflow instance.

• Launch Task / User Interface

  If the instance was directly launched by the Launch Task command, the Source Instance (source_instance) column will be null.

• Launch Task / System Operation

  If the instance was directly launched by the Launch Task command, the Source Instance (source_instance) column will be assigned the UUID of the instance invoking the System Operation.

• Launch Task / Web Service

  If the instance was directly launched by the Launch Task command, the Source Instance (source_instance) column will be null.

• Launch Task / Command Line
  If the instance was directly launched by the Launch Task command, the Source Instance (source_instance) column will be null.

• Recurring

  If the instance was directly launched by a Recurring Task Instance, the Source Instance (source_instance) column will be assigned the UUID of the Recurring Task Instance.

System-supplied; UUID of the source instance.

• If the instance was directly launched by a Trigger Now command; the UUID of the instance invoking the System Operation.

• If the instance was launched by a workflow; the UUID of the workflow instance.

• If the instance was directly launched by the Launch Task command; the UUID of the instance invoking the System Operation.

• If the instance was directly launched by a Recurring Task Instance; the UUID of the Recurring Task Instance.

System-supplied; how the task instance was launched.

Options:

• Trigger: (Trigger Name)
  Instance was launched by the named trigger.
• Workflow: (Workflow Name)
  Instance was launched by the named workflow.
• Manually Launched
  Instance was launched by a user. To identify the user, check the Execution User column for that task instance on the Task Instances screen or, on most task instance screens, the Execution User field.

System-supplied; If the task was launched manually; ID of the user who launched it.

Calendar associated with the task instance.

User-defined; Allows you to specify the time zone that will be applied to the task.

Options:

• – System Default –
  Time zone is based on the value of the Task Time Zone Preference Universal Controller system property: Server or Inherited.
• Server (xxx)
  Where (xxx) is the time zone ID of the server; time zone is evaluated in the time zone of the server.
• Inherited
  Time zone is evaluated in the time zone of the Parent Workflow or Trigger / Launch specification in the case there is no Parent Workflow.

Priority for acquiring a resource when two or more tasks are waiting for the resource. This priority applies to all resources required by the task.

Options: 1 (high) - 100 (low).

Default is 10.

If enabled, the task instance will continue to hold Renewable resources if the task instance fails. Renewable resources will be returned only if the task instance status is either Complete, Finished, or Skipped.

System-supplied; see Task Instance Statuses. 

System-supplied; the exit code captured by the Agent when executing the task (for example, a command or script).

System-supplied; additional information, if any, about the status of the task instance.

User-defined operational memo.

If time zone of user is different than time zone of task instance; Time at which Execution Restrictions and Run Criteria were evaluated based upon the requested time zone. (Time zone of task instance displays in parentheses.)

Indicates that this task is in the Critical Path of a workflow.

Amount of time calculated to wait before the task was started, based on Wait To Start and Delay On Start times.

System-supplied; Date and time the task was queued for processing.

System-supplied; Date and time the task instance was triggered.

System-supplied; Date and time the task instance was launched.

System-supplied; Date and time the task instance started.

System-supplied; Date and time the task instance completed.

System-supplied; amount of time the task instance took to run.

Protocol to use for the operation.
 
Options:

• HTTP(S)/REST
• SOAP

Default is HTTP(S)/REST.

HTTP authentication scheme to use.
 
Options:

• - - None - -
• Basic

Default is - - None - -.

If Credentials Variable - Web Service#HTTP Authentication = Basic; Indication of whether the Credentials Variable - Web Service#Credentials field is a reference field for selecting a specific Credential (unchecked) or a text field for specifying the Credentials Variable - Web Service#Credential as a variable (checked). Use the format:

${variable name}.

The variable must be a supported type as described in Variables and Functions.
 

Version of the HTTP protocol to use.
 
Options:

• 1.0
• 1.1

Default is 1.1.

Allows the Web Service task to use a TLS/SSL connection that is considered to be insecure.

If Protocol = HTTP(S)/REST; Type of HTTP request method to use.
 
Options:

• GET
• POST
• PUT
• PATCH
• DELETE

Default is POST.

If Protocol = SOAP; Version of the SOAP protocol to use.
 
Options:

• 1.1
• 1.2

Default is 1.2.

URL of the target service, excluding query parameters.
 
Optionally, you can include query parameters directly on the URL; however, the query string must be properly URL-encoded. In other words, the URL must be valid. For specifying unencoded query parameters, use URL Query Parameters.
 

Any query parameters to be encoded as a query string and appended to the URL.

Parameter values support Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Protocol = HTTP(S)/REST and HTTP Method = POST, PUT, or PATCH; Type of HTTP payload.
 
Options:

• Raw
• Form Data

Default is Raw.

If Protocol = HTTP(S)/REST; MIME type of the message body.
 
Options:

• application/javascript
• application/json
• application/xml
• text/html
• text/plain
• text/xml
• Other...

No default.
 

If HTTP Payload Type = Form Data; Any parameters to be encoded and added to the message body.

Parameter values support Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Protocol = SOAP; Type of SOAP payload.
 
Options:

• Body
• Envelope

Default is Body.

If Protocol = SOAP; Value of:

• SOAPAction HTTP Header field in SOAP 1.1
• action parameter in SOAP 1.2

If HTTP Payload Type = Raw; Specification for whether the payload is defined directly in this form (task Details) or if it is a reference to a script that contains the content of the request payload.
 
Options:

Default is Form.

If Payload Source = Form; Request payload.

Supports Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

HTTP headers

Values support Resolvable Credential functions if both Web Service Task Resolvable Credentials Functions Permitted and Resolvable Credentials Permitted system properties are true.

If Protocol = SOAP; Element of the SOAP response to be captured as output.
 
Options:

• Body/First Element
• Body
• Envelope

Default is Body/First Element.

Specification for whether or not to enable the auto clean-up of Web Service response output upon task instance completion or, if the task instance is within a workflow, when the top-level workflow instance completes.

Specification for how to process the response in order to determine success or failure.
 
Options:

• Default Success Status Code Range
• Success Status Code Range
• Failure Status Code Range
• Success Output Contains
• Failure Output Contains

Default is Default Success Status Code Range.

If Response Processing = Success Output Contains or Failure Output Contains; Output type that the Response Processing mechanism should assume when evaluating the output. If the expected output is XML or JSON, it is valid to specify Text. However, when specifying XML or JSON, the output must be XML or JSON, respectively; otherwise, the parsing will fail and the path expression evaluation will return no matches.
 
Options:

• Text
• XML
• JSON

Default is Text.

XPath Expression (if Output Type = XML) or JSON Path Expression (if Output Type = JSON) to be used when evaluating the response output.

Refer to https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_intro.asp and https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath respectively for more details.

If Output Type = XML or JSON; Strategy to take when applying the condition Operator and Value against the Path Expression matches.
 
Options:

• Match Any
• Match All
• Match None
• Count

Default is Match Any.

If Response Processing = Success Output Contains or Failure Output Contains; Condition operator to evaluate in combination with the specified condition Value.
 
Options:

• =
• !=
• >
• >=
• <
• <=
• regex

Default is =.

Amount of time to wait before starting a task from the time that it was launched.
 
Options are:

• – None –
• Time
• Relative Time
• Duration
• Seconds

Amount of time to wait before starting a task from the time that it was launched.
 
Options are:

• – None –
• Time
• Relative Time
• Duration
• Seconds

If Wait To Start = Time or Relative Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the wait time to another day.

Valid values:

• -- None --
  • If Wait To Start = Time; Advance to the next day if the specified wait time is before the time that the task instance is eligible to start; that is, all dependencies have been met. For example: it is not being held, and it is not waiting on any predecessors.
  • If Wait To Start = Relative Time; Advance to the next day if the specified wait time is before the task instance Trigger Time or, if there is no Trigger Time, before the task instance Launch Time. In the latter case, when a task instance is within a workflow, it will inherit the Launch Time of the top-level parent workflow task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.

Default is – None --.

If Wait To Start = Time or Relative Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the wait time to another day.

Valid values:

• -- None --
  • If Wait To Start = Time; Advance to the next day if the specified wait time is before the time that the task instance is eligible to start; that is, all dependencies have been met. For example: it is not being held, and it is not waiting on any predecessors.
  • If Wait To Start = Relative Time; Advance to the next day if the specified wait time is before the task instance Trigger Time or, if there is no Trigger Time, before the task instance Launch Time. In the latter case, when a task instance is within a workflow, it will inherit the Launch Time of the top-level parent workflow task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.

Default is – None --.

Amount of time to delay the start of a task, after it has been launched, from the time that it is eligible to start; that is, all dependencies have been met. For example: it is not being held, it is not waiting on any predecessors, or there is no wait time specified.
 
Options are:

• – None –
• Duration
• Seconds

Amount of time to delay the start of a task, after it has been launched, from the time that it is eligible to start; that is, all dependencies have been met. For example: it is not being held, it is not waiting on any predecessors, or there is no wait time specified.
 
Options are:

• – None –
• Duration
• Seconds

Required if Late Start is enabled.

Options:

• Time - Flag the task if it starts after the specified time.
• Duration - Flag the task if it starts a certain amount of time after the programmed start time. The task must have a specific start time.

If Late Start Type = Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the late start time to another day.
 
Valid values:

• -- None --
  Advance to the next day if the specified late start time is before the Created time of the task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.
• Nth Day
  Advance to a specific number of days in the future.

Default is – None --.

If Late Start Type = Duration; Duration (amount of relative time) after which the task is considered to have started late.

For a task within a workflow, the duration is the period between the time the workflow starts and the time the task itself starts. For example, a task might have a Late Start Duration of 60 minutes. If the workflow starts at 9:00 a.m. but the task itself does not start until 10:30, the task has started late.

For a task that is not within a workflow, Late Start Duration has meaning only if the task has been held upon starting. For example, if a task has a Late Start Duration of 60 minutes and the Hold on Start field is enabled, if the task is not released from hold within the amount of time specified in the Late Start Duration field, the task has started late.

Required if Late Finish is enabled.

Options:

• Time - Flag the task if it finishes after the specified time (see Late Finish Time).
• Duration - Flag the task if it finishes a certain amount of time after the programmed finish time (see Late Finish Duration). The task must have a specific finish time.
• Average Duration - Flag the task if it finishes before the average duration (see Average Instance Time) for the task, less an offset (see Late Finish Offset Type), if specified.

If Late Finish Type = Average Duration;

Options:

• Percentage
• Duration

If Late Finish Offset Type = Duration;

Options:

• Seconds
• Minutes
• Hours

If Late Finish Type = Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the late finish time to another day.
 
Valid values:

• -- None --
  Advance to the next day if the specified late finish time is before the Created time of the task instance.
• Same Day
  Do not advance day.
• Next Day
  Advance to the next day.
• Next Business Day
  Advance to the next business day.
• Sunday
  If today is not Sunday, advance to next Sunday.
• Monday
  If today is not Monday, advance to next Monday.
• Tuesday
  If today is not Tuesday, advance to next Tuesday.
• Wednesday
  If today is not Wednesday, advance to next Wednesday.
• Thursday
  If today is not Thursday, advance to next Thursday.
• Friday
  If today is not Friday, advance to next Friday.
• Saturday
  If today is not Saturday, advance to next Saturday.
• Nth Day
  Advance to a specific number of days in the future.

Default is – None --.

Required if Early Finish is enabled.

Options:

• Time - Flag the task if it finishes before the specified time (see Early Finish Time).
• Duration - Flag the task if it finishes a certain amount of time before the programmed finish time (see Early Finish Duration). The task must have a specific finish time.
• Average Duration - Flag the task if it finishes before the average duration (see Average Instance Time) for the task, less an offset (see Early Finish Offset Type), if specified.

If Early Finish Type = Average Duration;

Options:

• Percentage
• Duration

If Early Finish Offset Type = Duration;

Options:

• Seconds
• Minutes
• Hours

If Early Finish Type = Time; Specification for whether or not to advance the early finish time to another day.

Required if Early Finish Type or Late Finish Type = Average Duration; Estimated amount of time it should normally take to run this task. The Controller uses this information to calculate the User Estimated End Time on a task instance record.

User Estimated Duration is used when the Average Duration is not available; for example, on the first launch of a task.

System-provided if Late Start Time, Late Start Duration, or Late Finish Time is specified; This field is flagged if the task instance is projected to be late based on critical path projected end times (see Critical Path Projected Late Action Maximum and Critical Path Projected Late Threshold In Minutes Universal Controller system properties).

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User-defined; maximum number of times that the Controller should retry this task after it has started and gone to a failed state.

User-defined; number of seconds between each retry.

System-supplied; current number of times that the Controller has retried the task after it first went to failure status.

User-defined; If the task instance is in the Failed status, indicates whether or not the following will be suppressed until all scheduled retry attempts (a Maximum Retries value has been entered or Retry Indefinitely has been enabled) have been made:

• All Actions (Abort, Email Notification, Set Variable, SNMP Notification, and System Operation) defined for the task instance on a Failed status.

• Workflow conditional path processing; any Successors waiting on a failure path will not be released.

• Task Monitors will not be notified of the Failed status. Also, any Task Monitor task that has a Time Scope in the past will disqualify any matching task instance in the past with a Failed status if the task instance is scheduled for automatic retry and for which Suppress Intermediate Failures has been enabled.

• Any Workflow containing the Failed task instance will not transition to the Running/Problems status.

System-supplied for a task instance in the Failed status that is scheduled for automatic retry; Next time that a retry will be made. If a task instance is not scheduled for automatic retry, Next Retry Time does not display in the task instance Details.

Type of CP Duration; used in conjunction with the CP Duration field. For example, for a CP Duration of two minutes, specify 2 in the CP Duration field and select Minutes in this field.
 

Specification for whether or not there is a restriction for this task to be run, skipped, or held.

Options are:

• -- None -- No restriction for this task.
• Run Restriction for when this task will be run.
• Skip Restriction for when this task will be skipped.
• Hold Restriction for when this task will be held.

If Execution Restriction on a task is Run or Skip, then when it is part of a Workflow that is being launched, the Restriction Period is evaluated. The task instance will be skipped if Execution Restriction is Skip and the date is within the Restriction Period or Execution Restriction is Run and the date is not within the Restriction Period. Execution Restriction can be set to Skip with a Restriction Period of - None -, meaning the restriction is always active and the task will be skipped when it is part of a Workflow.

If Execution Restriction = Run, Skip, or Hold; Period of time when the task is restricted.

Options are:

• – None –
  No period of restriction for this task.
• Before
  Restriction is valid if the date is before the Before Date value.
• After
  Restriction is valid if the date is after the After Date value.
• Span
  Restriction is valid if the date is before the Before Date value and after After Date value.
• On
  Restriction is valid if the date is one of the Date List values.

System-supplied; Lowest estimated end time of the task instance, calculated by the Controller based on the date/time the task instance started.

System-supplied; Average estimated end time of the task instance, calculated by the Controller based on the date/time the task instance started.

System-supplied; Highest estimated end time of the task instance, calculated by the Controller based on the date/time the task instance started.

Saves updates to the record.

See Re-running a Task Instance.

The Re-run button does not display if the task instance does not qualify for Re-run.

If the task instance qualifies for Re-run, but already has Retry Options enabled, Re-run (Suppress Intermediate Failures) displays as disabled in the drop-down list.

Displays the task instance Details for the parent Workflow of this task instance.

Deletes the current record.