Working with Workflow Activities

The Activities category view of Workflow Console displays the activities that you have been assigned as potential owner or business administrator, and that have a state of Started. In this exercise, you claim activities, specify properties, add comments and complete activities.

To complete an activity, follow these steps:

Log on to SAS Model Manager as a member of the Model Manager Advanced Users group or Model Manager Administrator Users group.
Select ToolsMy Workflow Inbox or click . Workflow Console is launched in a Web browser and displays the Activities category view.
Select an activity and click to claim an activity.

Note: You can select an activity name and click to release an activity that you had previously claimed. Only a SAS administrator or SAS Model Manager administrator can release an activity that has been claimed by another participant. For more information, see Releasing an Activity in SAS Model Manager: User's Guide.
Click on a property value in the Properties pane, and then enter a value or change the existing value.

Note: Not all activities have user-defined properties.
To save the changes to the properties, click .

If you do not want to save the changes to the properties, click .
(Optional) Click New Topic to add a comment or click Reply to add to an existing comment using the Comments pane.

Example of the New Topic window:

Example of the Reply window:

Click Save. The comments now appear in the Comments pane.

For information, see Working with Comments in SAS Model Manager: User's Guide.
Select a status value to complete the activity. The workflow process continues to the next activity. Here is an example of the Model Performance Monitoring activity that has three statuses to choose from.
Repeat steps 2 through 6 until the workflow process has been completed.

For more information, see Working with Workflow Activities in SAS Model Manager: User's Guide.