Tasks by Content - Current Report
The Tasks by Content - Current report provides information about tasks in the current workflow status of the selected content item. For example, if a selected document is currently in the Approval status, the report would include information about that document's approver tasks. You can choose to include tasks that are Incomplete - Overdue, Incomplete - Not Overdue, Complete, Skipped, or Upcoming as well as content without tasks.
Generate the report
- In the navigation pane, click Reports, and then expand Tasks By Content.
- Click Tasks by Content - Current.
- Select content items to include in the report, and then click OK.
All available report options are on the left. The number of selected items displays next to the Content option. To change your selection, click Content.
Note: If you change your content selection after clicking View Report, click View Report again to refresh.
- Click Users, and then select or clear the All Users check box. If you want to limit the documents included in the report to only those with tasks assigned to specific users, click Custom Selection, and then in the Roles list, select an option from the available list.
- Click Task Options, and then select or clear Incomplete – Overdue, Incomplete – Not Overdue, Complete, or Skipped tasks in the report results.
Select Upcoming to include information about tasks assigned in a subsequent level of the Collaboration (submitted to writers), Review, or Approval status. For example, if a selected document has three review levels and is currently in level 1 of the Review status, selecting Upcoming would also include information about tasks assigned to Review levels 2 and 3. If that same document also had multiple approval levels, selecting Upcoming would also cause the report to include information about upcoming approval tasks, even though the document is still in Review.
- To filter content items to only those within a specific date range, click Choose a date, and then click Date Completed or Date Assigned (the date when an assigned task was completed or assigned). The default date range is the last 30 days from today's date. To change this setting, click , select a different preset date range, and then click Apply. If you select Custom Range, also select a start and end date, and then click Apply.
By default, Hide Excluded Tasks is selected. To change this setting, click and then click Show All Tasks or Show Excluded Tasks Only.
- Click View Report.
-
In the Layout menu, do one of the following:
-
Select Task Type to display data by the types of tasks, such as Read/Complete, Review, and Approve assigned to the selected content items.
-
Select Task's Status to display data by whether the assigned tasks are Incomplete, Complete, Skipped, or Upcoming.
-
Select Start/Publication Status to display data by the workflow status of the select item, such as Draft, Collaboration, Review, Approval, Pending, Approved, and Archived.
-
Select Disclosure Overview to only display disclosures. The Data Type and Outcome columns contain disclosure specific data.
-
- In the Summary pane, you can apply a chart type and change filters, see Working with the Report Summary Pane for detailed instructions.
- In the Data pane, click to expand the headings (groupings) to view all report data.
- (Optional) In the Data pane, click , and then click Show/Hide Columns to select or clear column check boxes that you want to include in the Data pane. The following list includes the names of the available columns.
Note: If you created custom attributes, the data associated with those attributes appears in the report as column names with the format User [custom attribute name] or Owner [custom attribute name]. For example, if you added a custom attribute named Hire Date, the corresponding column available in this report will be named User Hire Date or Owner Hire Date.
Assigned Proxy Author Date Archived Owner Employee ID Tasks: Reviewer Assigned Proxy Department Date Assigned Proxy User Tasks: Submit for Review Assigned Proxy Email Date Completed Recurrence Tasks: Writer Assigned Proxy Site Date Last Submitted Reference # Time Spent Assignee Task End Date Date to Archive Review Interval Title Campaign Date User Started Start/Publication Status Total Days in Workflow Step Complete Tasks Days in Current Cycle System Date Approved Total Sessions Content Approval Date Days Until Due Task Action User Content Creation Date Due Date Task Completed by Proxy User Department Content Effective Date Due Status Task Completed with Enhanced Validation User Email Address Content Language External Review Date Task is Compliance User First Name Content Next Review Date Incomplete Tasks Task Paused User Job Title Content Start/Publication Date Last Reviewed Date Task Type User Last Name Content Version Original Creation Date Task's Cycle User Number Two Attribute Current Cycle Outcome Task's Level User Preferred Language Current Level Owner Task's Status User Site Data Type Owner Department Tasks: Approver User Unique Employee ID Date & Time Completed Owner Site Tasks: Read/Complete - Customize the Data pane to show only the data you need in the way you want it represented, see Working with the Report Data Pane for detailed instructions.
- (Optional) After setting up the Summary pane and Data grid, create a custom layout to save your changes for future use. See Working with Custom Layouts) for detailed instructions.
-
To save the current selections of the report, click , type a name and description, and then click OK.
Note: To access a saved report, click Reports, and then expand My Saved Reports.
-
(Optional) To make the report available to others, click Move to System Saved Reports. When the report saves, others can view the report in the Reports > System Saved Reports category.
-
- To print the current report results, see Printing Report Results for detailed instructions.
Note: If dashboards are enabled, a widget (compact view) is automatically created for the report. If personal dashboards are enabled, you can add the report widget to My Dashboard. If the Home dashboard is enabled and you are a global or site administrator, you can add the report widget to the system-wide or site dashboard.