Manual Task activity library

You can use the Manual Task activity library to include manual steps in a deployment. The deployment process stays active until you change the status of the deployment activity to Pass or Cancel.

The Manual Task activity library emails a notification about the launch of the manual step to the specified users. To configure such notifications, use the default Manual Task notification template. To customize the default Manual Task notification template, add optional tokens to it.

After you finish running the manual steps, you can log on to the application and set the status of the Manual Task activity:

Pass: All the other activities are resumed and completed.
Cancel: The manual task stops, and all the dependent tasks stay in the Wait state. The deployment process is then canceled.

To configure the email template and the target email distribution list in the Manual Task notification task, use the following configuration options:

Parameter	Description
Notification Template Name	Name of the notification template to use for this email. If you want to get a notifications about the execution of the manual task, include the ${VL_ACTIVITY_NAME}, ${VL_INSTANCE},${VL_PACKAGE},and ${VL_ENVIRONMENT} tokens into the notification template. For more information about creating the email template, see Creating-notifications.
Destination Email Address	One or more names or email addresses of system users who should receive the notification email. Notes: When the user email domain matches the default domain name that is defined in the System Settings, you can specify only the part of the email that precedes the @ symbol. For example, if the Default Domain value is company.com, you might use john.smith instead of john.smith@company.com. When the email_address in the user details is set to the valid email address, you can use a username that the BMC VaraLogix Q Deployment Automation automatically translates into the email. For users with a non-English local language, notifications might be sent using their local language, if the necessary localized templates exist.

Parameter

Description

Notification Template Name

Name of the notification template to use for this email. If you want to get a notifications about the execution of the manual task, include the ${VL_ACTIVITY_NAME}, ${VL_INSTANCE},${VL_PACKAGE},and ${VL_ENVIRONMENT} tokens into the notification template. For more information about creating the email template, see Creating-notifications.

Destination Email Address

One or more names or email addresses of system users who should receive the notification email.

Notes:

When the user email domain matches the default domain name that is defined in the System Settings, you can specify only the part of the email that precedes the @ symbol.
For example, if the Default Domain value is company.com, you might use john.smith instead of john.smith@company.com.
When the email_address in the user details is set to the valid email address, you can use a username that the BMC VaraLogix Q Deployment Automation automatically translates into the email.

For users with a non-English local language, notifications might be sent using their local language, if the necessary localized templates exist.

Starting with BMC Release Package Deployment (formerly BMC VaraLogix Q Deployment Automation) version 4.3.01.07, the Manual Task activity library saves the audit log information. You can view it on the Report tab under Audit Log.

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