Skip human tasks

You can skip activities of instances that you suspended before. This is useful if the activity would fail or if none of the executors assigned to the human task are available and therefore the instance could not be completed.

Procedure

  1. Open Process administration Process administration.

    1. Click Application launcher Application launcher > Administration Administration. ARIS Administration opens.

    2. Click Process administration Process administration.

  2. Click the relevant process instance under Processes.

  3. Click Suspend Suspend. The execution of the process instance is suspended. It has the status Suspended.

  4. Click Activities. The process instance activities are listed.

  5. Move the mouse pointer over the human task you want to skip. The buttons of the available functions are displayed.

  6. Click Skip activity Skip activity. If output data was specified for the activity, a dialog opens for you to correct the data and thus avoid further failure. If no output data was specified for the activity, the activity is skipped immediately.

  7. Change the output data.

  8. Click Save.

The human task is skipped and set to Completed status. Now you can resume the instance. If this human task is the last activity of the process, the instance is also set to Completed status and therefore does not need to be resumed.

ARIS video tutorial

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