Quick Task

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Hello all, 
 Can anyone please tell me what is this Quick task, why do we use it under User input task, what is the benefit of enabling it. 
 Does this Quick task appear in Tempo ? 
 
 I great appreciate your effort to help people learn. 
 
 Thanks, 
 Preji Share, Learn & Grow :)

snehab848 · Accepted Answer

Hi Shweta,

Example:
Consider you have initiated the process of applying for loan.
Your entered all the required details and submitted the form.
If you want to modify some detail then you can use a Quick Task (i.e. Related Action of Process backed record) to edit the data in the running instance (i.e. Process Backed Record), rather than initiating a new process instance.
Once the loan is approved by the approver, the Quick task can be disabled so that user cannot modify any thing in that instance.

Quick tasks were majorly used in earlier Appian versions when Tempo & Records were not available.

Hope this helped.

snehab848 · Answer

Hi, 
In Tempo, Quick Tasks appear as related actions under Process Backed Records. A new instance of the task is automatically generated after one is completed. 
 
Like other tasks, quick tasks are not required to have an incoming flow, but they must have an outgoing flow. 
If a quick task does not have an incoming flow it is activated immediately upon startup of the process. 
 
Once a quick task has been enabled, it can be disabled in one of the following ways: 
1.Configure an exception flow. 
2.Make an in-flight modification to the process, in case no exception flow was configured or you wish to stop the Quick Task manually. 
 
A process containing quick task will be completed only when the flow hits Terminate event.

santhoshs · Answer

Lets say you have an action or related action. On kick starting the process, a task is assigned to a user(activity chained) and you do not want the task to be in user's tasks queue even though the users does not completes the task(By closing the browser tab like that). This case can be achieved by making the user input task as a quick task. 
 
Thanks

ravalik · Answer

Hi Preji, 
 
As far as I know quick task is an attended activity which is activated and completed outside of fixed process flow. They are initiated on an ad-hoc basis and a new instance of the task is automatically generated after one is completed. Any attended process activity can be configured as a Quick Task.When a task is configured as a quick task, existing forms and data configurations are preserved. 
You can also add a Quick Task when editing a running process. 
Please find the below link for your clear understanding. 
 docs.appian.com/.../Process_Model_Recipes.html 
 
Thanks, 
ravalik

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