{"id":3189,"date":"2021-04-06T13:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T11:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/docs\/taskcontrol\/tasks\/starting-and-finishing-a-task\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T07:05:35","slug":"starting-and-finishing-a-task","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/en\/docs\/en-docs-taskcontrol\/tasks\/starting-and-finishing-a-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting and Finishing a Task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting and finishing a <a href=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/docs\/en-docs-taskcontrol\/getting-started\/task\/\">task<\/a> is a two step process to capture real time of starting of an activity and real time of accomplishing of the task.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is compared to planned and expected start and end of the activity.<\/p>\n<p>Button Start appears only when all prerequisites for task status Ready are accomplished. Either the task is planned to time to start or all predecessing tasks are finished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3307\" src=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started-300x54.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started-300x54.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When clicking the Start button, the Executor is allowed to to enter a message for the record but the task can be started in Start Task dialog with just one button click. The status changes to In progress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3306\" src=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started-2-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started-2-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started-2-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-started-2.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a task is In progress status, button Finish appears for the assigned Executor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3305\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\" src=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished-300x52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finish dialog appears giving user more options for finish <a href=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/docs\/en-docs-taskcontrol\/tasks\/task-statuses\/\">status<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3304\" src=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished-2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished-2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished-2-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Task-to-be-finished-2.jpg 834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Task status can be always <a href=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/docs\/en-docs-taskcontrol\/tasks\/overriding-tasks\/\">overriden<\/a> by Manager of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":3149,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Starting and Finishing a Task | TaskControl<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/taskcontrol.cz\/en\/docs\/en-docs-taskcontrol\/tasks\/starting-and-finishing-a-task\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale:alternate\" content=\"cs_CZ\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Starting and Finishing a Task | TaskControl\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Starting and finishing a task is a two step process to capture real time of starting of an activity and real time of accomplishing of the task. 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