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Task Categories

Task categories allow you to organize tasks to make them easier to locate in the User Console.

You can specify three task categories:

• Category is the most common way to group tasks. Typically, the category level indicates the type of object to which the task applies, such as Users.
• Category 2 determines the name of the top-level category. By default, this is Tasks.
• Category 3 provides an additional grouping level, if needed. For example, you may use a category 3 name to group tasks for contractors.

Within each category, you can control the order in which the items in that category are displayed by specifying a category order. For example, in the following illustration, the Employee tab has a category order of 3.

Note: When a category contains multiple tasks, the category order that is specified in the profile for each task must be the same. If the category order is different, multiple instances of that category tab will appear. For example, the Employee category contains two tasks: Create Employee and Modify Employee. If the category order in the Create Employee task is 3 and the category order in the Modify Employee is 6, the Employee category appears as two tabs.

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