Scenario: 5 Recipients 1 Approved response

In this scenario, a task is sent to five recipients, namely Codi, Bob, Dennis, Holly, and Erica. They can either Approve or Reject the task, which completes when one of the recipients responds with Approve.

If you want to know how to configure the task step for this scenario, skip ahead to How to configure the Task step.

Task list behavior for Recipients

The workflow starts and sends a task to all recipients. The task shows in the My Task section in K2 Workspace (Desktop) for each of them because, at this stage, nobody has opened the task and it is available for everyone to open. Codi opens the task and takes ownership of it. This means that Codi takes the only available response for the task. The task is not available for any of the remaining four recipients and does not show in their inbox.

Codi approves the task and the workflow continues because one person chose the Approve action.

The animation below illustrates the path from when the task is assigned to the recipients to when it completes.