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I had a teammate ask me how to track a task is opened the first time. He wanted to fire either a startProcess or write to DSE in a localVariable but I told him you could only do that on saveInto. I proposed creating a task report and either using the status of Assigned -> Accepted or Owner is not null to show the task has been opened and accepted (accepted has automatically when there is only one assignee and the task is opened).
Is this the only way to track when a task is opened?
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By assigning a task to a group, you are able to track when a user assigns the task to themselves. Alternatively, you can always create a button called 'Start Task' which will fire startProcess or a write to DSE.