Service tasks

Service tasks are essential components of every workflow template. They define the actions available in the BPMN designer and drawn in the workflow template.

Service tasks can be either standard or triggerable.

• Standard service tasks execute and complete the action they are called to perform, and then the workflow continues. An example of standard service task is the RenameFile service task that executes and completes the rename task. See the Standard service tasks page for a description of these service tasks.

• Triggerable service tasks do not perform a specific action, but rather, initiate a request to start an operation. The instance enters a paused state, waiting for a completion notification to trigger it. The spPush service task, for example, delivers a file to a remote host using a specific transport protocol. It sends a request to STENG to initiate the file transfer and then waits. Once the transport finishes, the process is triggered again upon receiving the completion event. They are documented on the Triggerable service tasks page.

Primeur can offer additional Service tasks with a separate license.

The description of how to use service tasks to create workflow templates is on the Create a user-designed workflow template page and on its subpages.