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 App Explorer screen, do one of these:
   • Open a Process.
   • Create a Process.
2. In Process Builder, in the Activity Library, open the Utilities tab.

   
   
   

3. On the Utilities tab, drag the Cancel Tasks activity onto your process.

   
   
   

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