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Finishing a started Activity

Finish an Activity to indicate that you have finished performing a specific workflow task, such as reviewing content, on an item or items that you previously picked up by Starting an Activity. Only finish an Activity if you are finished with all the items associated with that Activity.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser, access a Web page that is editable and start editing by clicking the SDL Tridion button at the top left corner of the page.
  2. Click the workflow dropdown at top right and select Started.
    A list of Activities you picked up appears.
  3. Select the Activity you want to finish.
    Details for this Activity appear, including a Finish Activity button.
  4. Click Finish Activity.
    A Finish Activity Message text box and possibly a Next Activity area appear.
  5. If applicable, select the next activity to be performed. You can also enter a message about the activity you have performed (for example, you can enter review notes). Click Done to proceed.
    The screen disappears and your Activity is finished.

Results

You have performed the workflow task associated with this assignment, and the item(s) are either assigned to the next group of users in the workflow process, or some automated activity (for example, publishing the items) is triggered.