Manual tasks

A manual task defines a task that requires human interaction but no external tooling or UI interface. For example, a user reviewing a document or completing a physical task.

Manual tasks are part of human task orchestration, but differ from user tasks which define an actionable task assisted by a business process execution engine or software application.

Within the engine and BPMN model, a manual task is handled as a pass-through activity, automatically continuing the process at the moment the process instance arrives.

Manual tasks provide insights into the tasks performed outside the process engine, aiding in modeling a process, though no linked automation process is utilized.

XML representation

A manual task:

<bpmn:manualTask id="manual-task" name="Manual task" />