Using Participants to Create Tasks

If you have participants, you can drag them to a blank area of a process to automatically create several types of task:

    Procedure
  1. In the Project Explorer, click the participant, and holding down the mouse button drag the pointer to a blank part of the process and release the mouse button.
    Note: You can select multiple participants for drag-and-drop operations using the Ctrl (for single selection) or Shift (to select a range) keys.
  2. A menu is displayed with the following options:
    Create User Task For Participant(s)
     Selecting this option creates a user task with the selected participants.
    Create Service Task For Participant(s)
     Selecting this option creates a service task with the selected participants.
    Create Manual Task For Participant(s)  
    Selecting this option creates a manual task with the selected participants.
    Other Task Types
     This submenu contains more task types that you can create from a participant.