Task Types

Users with access to the project inventory (and edit privileges) can create and manage one or more tasks for a given inventory item. Tasks can be one of three types:

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Manual Review Inventory—A task to track the manual review of an inventory item, typically an inventory item that has not already been auto-reviewed by policy. A Manual Review Inventory task alerts the assignee to the need to review the inventory item within its current context. Closing this type of task with an Approve or Reject resolution can automatically approve or reject the inventory item. See Effects of Closing Manual Review Tasks on Inventory Status for details.

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Remediate Inventory—A task to track a remediation effort on the inventory item (typically a rejected item). A remediation task signals to the assignee to perform some action to make the inventory item acceptable for use (for example, to upgrade to a new version due to discovered vulnerabilities or to use a specific license and to comply with license obligations). Closing a remediation task does not automatically change the inventory review status.

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Miscellaneous—A task to track any other effort for an inventory item. Closing a Miscellaneous task does not automatically change the inventory review status.

Note that a task can also be created automatically in an automated workflow process (along with work items) based on review and remediation options up for the project, as described in Updating Inventory Review and Remediation Settings for a Project. Users with proper permissions can then manage these and manually created tasks, using the procedures described in this section. (For user roles that can manage tasks, see Roles and Permissions to Manage the Review Task Flow.)