Human Tasks is an extension to WS-BPEL 2.0 that includes human workflow activities within a BPEL process. In a BPEL process, a People activity "invokes" a person to handle and complete a task. Similar to the behavior of an invoke activity, the person returns output data to the process. The task input and output data is sent and received from Process Central (or via the WS-Human Task Web Service). Additionally, users can receive notifications, which contain only an input variable.

Viewing Human Task Information

From the Active Processes page, you can select a process to open the Active Process Detail page. In this page, select a People Activity from the graph or Outline view. The following illustration shows the properties for a People Activity that contains a task.

In this view you can select:

In addition to looking at one task at a time, you can view a list of active tasks.