You can suspend the work process flow for work order or
task records that have it defined. For example, if you want to start
a work order or task manually, you could suspend the flow control
on that record. The flow remains suspended until you remove the suspension.
Before you begin
Removing the suspension restarts the flow. Any successor work
orders or tasks with completed predecessors continue the process.
Work orders and tasks without predecessors continue the process at
the same time as the parent record. The last completed child under
a parent rolls its completion up to the parent.
Procedure
- In an application that supports flow action, display the
record on which you want to suspend flow control.
- On the main application tab, at the header level, select
the Suspend Flow Control check box. The system
suspends the work process flow on the work order and on all of its
tasks.
- To retain flow control for individual tasks, display the
tasks in the Tasks table window, and clear the Suspend
Flow Control check box at the task level. Flow control
remains in place at the task level. This action does not affect the
suspension at the work order header level. You can find the Tasks table
window on the Plans tab.
- Click Save Record.
Example
You generally suspend a set of tasks, often under the same
parent. For example, you can delay the automatic starting of one whole
phase of work until a certain condition has been met. You can also
delay starting a phase of work to make changes to the tasks, such
as inserting tasks, deleting tasks, and changing the precedence logic.