The participants assigned to a user task define the pool of users who are eligible to receive work items generated by that user task. You must also define whether a work item generated from a user task will be
allocated to or
offered to the pool of eligible users:
Allocated work is only sent to a single user, selected from the pool.
Offered work is sent to every user in the pool.
The following diagrams show the difference between these methods.
Allocating a work item to a single user from the pool
Offering a work item to every user in the pool
Procedure
Select the user task.
Select the
Resources tab of the
Properties view.
In the
Distribution Strategy area, click:
Offer To All, to offer a work item generated by this user task to all users in the pool of designated participants. This is the default option.
Offer To One, to offer a work item generated by this user task to a single user in the pool of designated participants.
This option is not currently supported. Do not use it. A validation error is displayed if this option is selected.
Allocate To One, to allocate a work item generated by this user task to a single user in the pool of designated participants.