Managing Human Tasks

In IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence, there are three types of human tasks you can see in the task inbox: approval requests, ad-hoc tasks, and notification requests.

Tasks can be created from

Event Studio (notification requests and approval requests)
For more information, see the Event Studio User Guide.
the My Inbox area of IBM Cognos Connection (notification requests and ad-hoc tasks). For more information, see Create an Ad-hoc Task
a watch rule set up for a report (notification requests only). For more information, see Watch Rules in Saved Reports