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Agent for Updating Task Status

This system agent searches for tasks with a specified status and assigns a different status. It cleans up. Use only when needed. Examples:

If you find it necessary to regularly change tasks with Waiting status to Error so that they are picked up by error handling routines, you can set up this agent to do that automatically.
In some systems tasks tend to get stuck with Busy status, even though they are not busy. If you configure this agent to change Busy tasks to Ready so that the activity runs again, the documents are often processed without any other intervention. (More information.)
The agent checks first whether the document is checked out by another process. If so, the status is not changed. Only checked-in documents with Busy status are changed.

These settings are available when you configure this agent:

Current task status	Tasks with this status are assigned a new status.
New task status	The new status that is assigned to those tasks.
Polling cycle (minutes)	How often (in minutes) to check whether there are tasks to assign a new status.
Select the activities whose tasks are to be updated	Select the activities you are concerned with. (Selecting all activities is not recommended.)

These settings are also available:

Import button	Imports settings from an XML file that was previously created using Export.
Export button	Exports the settings to an XML file. Specify the file name and location. You can then import the XML file to get the same settings. See Exporting and importing agent settings.