Hi Richard, The tasks need to be activated by the parent object i.e. incident/change or any predecessor task/task groups in a sequential flow. For incident setting the status of "In Progress" will activate the first task or task group associated to the incident.
There is a known issue when sometimes the task flow is broken and the tasks do not get activated. This mainly happens when you have a cancelled task somewhere in the middle of a sequence. The way to manually activate the task is to set the 'State' field on the task to active. You can do this by workflow to push this value into the relevant task from a display only form that you can create. BMC support advised that we install ITSM patch 9 to resolve the issue when a task does not get activated. We did install patch 9, but there were 2 major issues that got introduced as a result of installing the patch. We got a hot fix for one of them and the other issue is still open. Regards, Saby ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 8:22:59 AM Subject: Task error - suggestions? ** I’m starting to work with the Task Management system under Incident Mgt. I’ve created an incident and an ad-hoc task under it. However, when I go into the task to change the status I keep getting an error - (ARERR 45093) – that says I have to activate the task in the incident. I can’t seem to find any place in the “best practices” incident menu where I can do this. Any suggestions? There was no info in bing/google or anything really helpful in the KB on how to fix this.. Thanks. AR 7.5 patch 2 Portions of this message may be confidential under an exemption to Ohio's public records law or under a legal privilege. If you have received this message in error or due to an unauthorized transmission or interception, please delete all copies from your system without disclosing, copying, or transmitting this message._Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
