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Last updated June 24, 2020


How to Manage Task Defaults

Task default configurations are used to propagate configurations to tasks across workflow templates.


Anytime a task is added to a workflow template it inherits its default configurations for every template field and updates dynamically when the task default is modified. Each task template field can be customized to break this dynamic link to the task default configuration.

Task Template Fields

Each of the following fields can be independently set to default or custom on every task in a workflow template:

  1. Duration
  2. Task Tags
  3. Work Instructions
  4. Quantity Tracking
  5. Local Quality Standards
  6. Signatures
  7. Asset Events

Process Time vs Cycle Time

Process Time and Cycle Time are two metrics to measure task duration. Process Time in FactoryFour is calculated by summing all time the task is in the active status. Whereas Cycle Time is calculated by the difference between the timestamp when the task moves from standby to inactive (i.e. the tasks dependencies were met) and the timestamp that the task is completed. In task configuration, the expected Process Time and Cycle Time are set to enable measuring expected vs. actual times for both metrics.

Backwards Compatibility

All existing workflows will work like any future workflows:

  • any fields that have been set to a value will be treated as custom as it deviated from the empty default configuration
  • any fields that are empty with no value will be treated as default and will update dynamically when the task default configuration is modified

If you would like to link existing configurations with the task default or unlink empty configurations from the task default, then those modifications will need to be published in a new revision.

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