A placeholder entity that is defined in the metadata but not implemented. It carries only the system fields (name, owner, record type and audit stamps). It has no storage, no app, no menu, no form and no list view, and no screen, approval, macro or business rule creates or reads it. Because nothing stores it, the platform refuses any attempt to read or save a Task record, for example through the data API or an import, with the error "Entity type 'Task' not found in model." A Create Record business-rule action that targets Task creates nothing. A Clone action is seeded for it but cannot take effect. In xMatix a task is an Activity whose Type is Task: you create one with the Task button on a record's Activities panel, and approval task actions, the Create Task macro step and the Create Activity business-rule action add them the same way. Use activities, not this entity, for to-dos and follow-ups.
Fields
| Field | Label | Type | Required | What it does |
|---|
CreatedById | Created By | Lookup → UserAccount | Yes | |
CreatedDateTime | Created Date | DateAndTime | Yes | |
Id | Id | Guid | Yes | |
ModifiedById | Modified By | Lookup → UserAccount | Yes | |
Name | Name | Text | Yes | Name of the task. Not stored: the entity has no storage. A task activity uses its Subject instead. |
OwnerId | Owner | Lookup → UserAccount | Yes | User the task would belong to. Not stored. A task activity's Owner is the person it is assigned to. |
RecordTypeId | Record Type | Guid, hidden | | Record type. Not stored. |
SubscriptionKey | Subscription Key | Guid, hidden | Yes | |
UpdatedDateTime | Modified Date | DateAndTime | Yes | |
Actions
| Action | Label | Type | What it does |
|---|
Clone | Clone | ServerAction (Clone) | Create a copy of this record |
