Action State Specifics

v2021.1

An Action in Enate will begin in a status of ‘To Do’ until a resource has picked it up - this could be a human resource or a robot resource.

Once you start updating an Action sitting in this state, it will:

automatically assign to you and
the status will change to ‘In progress’

You can also choose to change the state yourself. This signifies that work is now underway and it will stay in 'In Progress' until it’s resolved – assuming e.g. no waiting for further information.

Setting an Item back to 'To Do'

If you’ve picked up an Action in error, or if your reach the conclusion that it’s not a piece of work you’re going to be able to progress you can unassign it from yourself, either to another resource or just back to its Queue. This could be after 10 seconds or half an hour, but when you do this the system will automatically set the status back to ‘To Do’ to let everyone know that it’s not going to be progressed until another resource picks it up. You can also just manually set the status back to ‘To Do’ if for example you started working on it in error and need to quickly undo the status change.

Similarly if a robot resource rejects a piece of work its status will be set back to ‘To Do’ as part of handing it over for a human resource to carry out.

Using 'Wait'

If you’re working on an Action and you have to temporarily halt work on it because you’re waiting for some additional information or because of some other temporary blocker, you should choose the ‘Wait’ status.

When placing an Action into a state of 'Wait' you should specify the type of wait

Wait for more information
Follow Up (wait until a specified date & time).

Wait for more information

Upon confirming the 'Wait for more information' status, the Action will move from your Inbox into your 'Owned Work' list, as there is no active work to be carried out by you until the follow up date.

When an incoming mail is received, the Action will move back from your Owned Work list into your Inbox, highlighted for you to progress.

Wait until Follow Up Date

When you wish to wait until a future date / time before progressing the work item, select the 'Follow Up' option and specify the desired Date and Time.

Upon confirming the 'Wait until Follow Up' status, the Action will move from your Inbox into your 'Owned Work' list, as there is no active work to be carried out by you until the follow up date.

When this date is reached the Action will move back from your Owned Work list into your Inbox, highlighted for you to progress.

Resolving a work Item

You signify completing the Action by marking it as Resolved.

Along with this there are two options to specify how the Action was resolved:

Complete
Unable to complete

Unable to Complete

Set this option if you cannot complete the required activity. Once you have confirmed this option, the Action will be closed and cannot be re-opened. The Case Owner will be notified of this and be asked to take the necessary steps to resolve at Case level. This may involve starting another copy of the Action, reworking the Case from a previous step, or moving on.

Enter the reason you are unable to complete the Action and hit the ‘can’t Complete’ button to confirm. The tab will close.