Inside Activate
Studio
Task View and Admin Tasks in Activate Studio (Web and Desktop)
10 min
overview activate includes "admin tasks" , which are actions only available to users with administrative privileges these tasks can be accessed through the activate studio desktop studio in the desktop studio, you can find these admin tasks at the bottom of the app in the "task list" window web admin in the web admin, these tasks can be found by navigating to studio > admin tasks as shown below these tasks can describe actions needing to be performed, ranging from changes needed due to a recent upgrade to custom actions based on your organization's business rules how to complete a task desktop studio in desktop studio, you can simply double click on the task, and it will take you to the affected or recommended parameter or object in the example below, clicking on the highlighted task will take you to //roles, where you can see that the "defaultusermailbox" parameter has not been defined as required once completed, right click the task and select "complete" this will remove the task from the admin task list web studio similarly, in web studio, you can mark a task as completed by checking the completed task and clicking the "complete items" button where are admin tasks stored? admin tasks are a special type of resource, stored and viewable inside activate admin like any other computer or role object you can find them under //resources/studio/tasks how are admin tasks created? admin tasks can be created in a few ways some are included as part of an upgrade and will appear automatically in other cases, you may want to create your own admin tasks directly in sql in some situations, you may want to create admin tasks in the database (perhaps from a different system or as a result of a stored procedure elsewhere) in that case, you can simply add a row to the admintask table as shown below scripting through activate using activate desktop admin, open a new script window use the following code as a template for creating your own admin task using innovation activate; class script scriptbase { public void main() { var newadmintask = new admintask(); newadmintask name = "my new admin task"; newadmintask description = "we need to do a, then b, then c "; newadmintask category = "mytasks"; newadmintask link = "=//tasks/link/to/someobject"; newadmintask setinfo(); } } by running the above script, you can see the new task appear in the admin task list window after hitting the refresh button