Note: This feature requires the Material Request & Approval module licensed at your site.
The majority of activity in the submission and evaluation of material requests is the performance of MRAP tasks. When you perform an MRAP task—as a requester submitting a request or an approver evaluating a request—you gather and record a specific piece of information relevant to the requested product. The exact nature of this information is determined by the task type; for example, when you perform a Hazard Classification task, you select the hazard classifications appropriate to the requested product. For details on the various types of task and how each is performed, see MRAP Task Types.
Use the administrative Tasks page to view and manage the tasks in your system. Each task defined here becomes available for any request and any task template (pre-defined sequence of tasks; see Administration: MRAP Task Templates).
Note: If you are a local site user, whether you see Corporate-defined MRAP tasks on this page depends on your site's Include Corporate Values setting for its Material Request & Approval module configuration (see Site Settings):
● Setting selected: Corporate-created tasks are visible and available for operations at your local site.
● Setting cleared: Corporate-created tasks are neither visible nor available. Your site must create its own local items to support its operations.
To view the MRAP tasks available at your site:
Starting at the Application Administration page (How do I get there?), do the following:
1. In the menu on the left, under MATERIAL REQUEST, click Tasks.
The administrative Tasks page opens, showing all MRAP tasks available at your site. Each task's properties are shown in the following columns:
● Scope: The origin of the task, indicated by one of the following icons:
Task was created at Corporate. It is available for operations at any site using Corporate values (see note for local site users above), but can be edited or deleted by a Corporate user only.
Task was created at your local site. It is available for operations at your site only, and can be edited and deleted by a local site user only.
● Description: The description or title of the task.
● Task Type: The task's type (for details on these, see MRAP Task Types).
● Pick: Indicates whether the task is currently available to be selected for requests and templates (Y) or not (N).
● Time to Complete: The number of hours permitted for performing the task.
2. Optional: To view the instructions displayed to the performers of each task, select the Show Instructions check box in the lower right.
Each task's instructions are added to the display. To remove them from the display, clear the Show Instructions check box.
If you have permission to manage MRAP tasks, see the following topics for details:
● Creating an MRAP Task: Create a task whose performance collects and records new product information to aid the evaluation of material requests.
● Editing an MRAP Task: Change the properties of any existing MRAP task that was created at your site.
● Deleting an MRAP Task: Permanently remove an obsolete or otherwise unwanted MRAP task.
