Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
The manager has two basic options when it comes to staff tasks, they can either work
on the task directly themselves, where they can carry out the same sets of actions as
the assignee. Alternatively, they can choose to reassign the task to another of their
direct reports or to any of the groups that they own.
To see how we do this, log in as
wfaulk
(
jstein
's manager), and click on
My Staff
Tasks
. Select the task(s) you want to reassign; then from the
Actions
drop-down
list, select
Reassign
. This will open the
Reassign Task
window, as shown in the
following screenshot:
Here we have the option to either
Reassign
or
Delegate
the task. Stick with the
Reassign
option for the time being, as we will look at delegation shortly.
The remainder of the screen allows us to search for the users and or groups that
we want to reassign the task to. You can choose to search just
Users
or
Groups
. In
addition, you can further filter the list on the ID of the user or group, as well as the
first name or last name of the user.
When specifying the search criteria, you can use a
*
to match any character. For
example, the pattern
st*
will bring back the list of users whose user ID, first,
or last name begin with
st
.
