Creation Time for Task or Process

Hi,
You can create process/task reports and use a!queryProcessAnalytics to get start times of tasks and processes:
docs.appian.com/.../Process_Reports.html
docs.appian.com/.../fnc_system_a_queryprocessanalytics.html

Hi ,

As jeremys  said you can create  process/task report  and use Task properties =tp!starttime to get Task start time and  Process Properties pp!starttime to get start time of process.

Appian process reports typically pull data from the active processes of a process model, the tasks assigned to certain users or groups, or from specific process instances.
You can create a process/task report where you can add columns for Task creation time by using tp!starttime and process/subprocess creation time by using pp!starttime. Use a!queryProcessAnalytics to get these details of process report.

Refer this below link
docs.appian.com/.../Process_Reports.html
docs.appian.com/.../fnc_system_a_queryprocessanalytics.html

Thanks
Dipti

Hi wayne,

These links might be helpful for your requirement.
docs.appian.com/.../Process_Reports.html
docs.appian.com/.../fnc_system_a_queryprocessanalytics.html

Thanks,
ravalik

Thank you all for your responses, but as I understand it the start time of a task or process is not the same as the creation time. My understanding is that start time (for a task, at least) is when the when the user that the task is assigned to accepts it to begin working on it. What I'm looking for is when the task originally came into being, whether it was assigned or not, and certainly independent of when someone began working on it.

I am familiar with queryprocessanalytics(). I regret that I did not mention that in my initial post. It just seems like the creation date/time is missing. In my mind, the lifecycle of a task or process goes something like this:

Creation -> Assignment -> Accepted (work starts)
??? -> Task Assignment Time -> tp!starttime

I am looking for how to get the ??? timestamp, while it seems that queryprocessanalytics only gives the last 2.

I have thought of assigning a deadline to a task that is always a certain number of hours after it is created, then getting tp!deadline and subtracting those hours, but it seems to me that getting the creation datetime should not require jumping through such hoops.

If the timestamp you want is not part of the available metrics, looks like you will just have to create a script task immediately before the user input task which saves now() into a pv (let's call it taskCreationTime) and then build a task report that looks at pv!taskCreationTime.

That is another idea with potential... probably better than the deadline idea in case the deadlines ever start getting used (and changed) for their intended purpose.

I believe tp!starttime is the time the task is created, rather than assigned or accepted.

Yep this is how I would do it and the easiest way.