Cancel Activities in a Process that are Active

Good to Know

• In most text fields, you can use process data variables as an alternative to literal data values.
• You can configure whether this activity waits for other activities before it runs.

  For more information, refer to How Do I Configure an Activity to Wait for Other Incoming Activities?

• When the Cancel Tasks activity runs, all human task activities that have a status of New, Assigned, Overdue are changed to Cancelled.
• When the Cancel Tasks activity runs, all system activities that have a status of Running or Waiting are changed to Cancelled.

How to Start

1. On the Application Explorer screen, do one of these:
   • Open a Process.
   • Create a Process.
2. Do one of these:
   • Add an activity:
     1. In the Process Builder, in the Activity Library, open the Utilities tab.
     2. On the Utilities tab, drag the Cancel Tasks activity onto your process.
   • Change an activity:
     1. In your process, double-click your activity.

Procedure

1. On the Cancel Tasks Configuration screen, select the activities to cancel.

   Field Name	Definition
   All Activities	Function: Cancels the activities that are active in a process. Accepted Values: Selected - Specifies that all the activities are cancelled. Deselected - Does not specify to cancel all the activities. You must select any combination of these fields to specify activities to cancel: All Human Tasks All System Activities Specific Activities Default Value: Selected
   All Human Tasks	Function: Cancels all the human task activities that are active in a process instance. Accepted Values: Selected - Specifies that the incoming human task activities are cancelled. Deselected - Does not specify to cancel all human task activities. You select Specific Activities to specify human task activities to cancel. Default Value: Deselected
   All System Activities	Function: Cancels all the system activities that are active in a process instance. Accepted Values: Selected - Specifies that all active system activities are cancelled. Deselected - Does not specify to cancel all system activities. You select Specific Activities, to specify system activities to cancel. Default Value: Deselected
   Specific Activities	Function: Cancels the selected activities if they are active in a process instance. Accepted Values: Selected - Specifies that the selected activities are cancelled if they are active. Deselected - Does not specify to cancel the selected activities. You must select any of the fields to specify activity types to cancel: All Human Tasks All System Activities Default Value: Deselected