Activate the workspace task group
In this step, you continue to assume the role of Jim, a Workspace Manager, and activate the task group that is created in the previous step to have the contributors begin work on the workspace. As the task group is recurring, you are activating a task group that is continuously activated upon completion with the same tasks and contributors involved.
Note: The Workspace Administration
Tool is deprecated. The Workspace Management tool replaces all of
the workspace management features in the Workspace Administration
Tool and the Tasks tool. If your site uses the Workspace Management
tool, do not follow the steps that are contained within this tutorial.
Instead, see Workspace Management tool.About this task
This step assumes that you completed the previous step successfully, and are logged in to the Workspace Administration Tool, and have the following workspaces, task groups, and tasks:
Procedure
- Add comments to inform the Content Contributors of the
work to be done:
- In the New Comment field, type
additional information for the Content Contributors. The information is
specific to this instance of the task group:
Create product info for new line cell phones from product specification document from manufacturer.
With the field completed, the New task panel looks like the following image:
The task group code that is displayed on your screen might be different from the task group code that is shown in the image. Every task group, regardless of the workspace, has a unique identifier.
- In the New Comment field, type
additional information for the Content Contributors. The information is
specific to this instance of the task group:
- Activate the task group:
Select the Product introductions task group and click Activate.
If email notification is enabled on the system, Joe is sent an email notification of the tasks that are assigned to Joe.
The task is now active and you can monitor the status of the tasks and task group from the Current, completed, & canceled view:
