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Plan appropriate number of tasks in a same open phase

When you define a task plan, you can specify the “Open in Phase” field of a task, which means this task is created at run time when the workflow of the record moves to the phase. Currently all the tasks you plan with the same “Open in Phase” value are created immediately when the record moves to the corresponding phase.

Too many tasks for a phase may result in decreased performance. For example, if you plan more than 10 tasks, the operator might feel obvious performance downgrade when he moves the record to that phase. To ensure the best performance, it is recommended that no more than 10 tasks are automatically started once a phase is entered.

Note: The performance of generating tasks in Task Planner is not only affected by the number of planned tasks, but also by the business logic you plan for task creation. The more complex and time-consuming the logic is, the more performance downgrade you might encounter.