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Last Updated: 2024-06-14
Define Order of Parallel Steps in My Tasks

Define Order of Parallel Steps in My Tasks

Security: These domains in the System functional area:
  • Business Process Administration
  • Manage: Business Process Definitions
Workday enables business process administrators to control the order in which parallel steps in a business process display in My Tasks relative to other parallel steps.
  1. Edit the business process definition.
  2. In each step with the same
    Order
    , type one or more letters in the
    Parallel Step Order in My Tasks
     column.
    When you save the business process definition, Workday sorts the business process steps alphabetically.
Workday displays items in My Tasks in the opposite order specified in the business process definition if you sort your My Tasks by
Newest on Top
. The older task (or the next task) is at the bottom of My Tasks, and newer tasks display at the top.
When a business process administrator sets up parallel steps in this order in the business process definition:
  • ca: Add Photo
  • cb: Complete Form I-9
  • cc: Change Emergency Contacts
Workday displays the tasks in this order in MyTasks:
  • Change Emergency Contacts
  • Complete Form I-9
  • Add Photo
When one of the parallel steps is worked on and saved for later, the order relative to other steps parallel to it isn't maintained.
To match the parallel step order with the order in which the tasks display in My Tasks, sort My Tasks by
Oldest on Top
, or reverse the order of the steps in the
Parallel Step Order in My Tasks
 column on the business process definition.