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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 17, 2025

Enhanced Scheduled Task Interface

For users will multi-step Scheduled Tasks used for automation, it would be very helpful to provide an enhanced interface for viewing and managing those tasks. I would love the see an interface with the following capabilities: 

The base interface would display a list of each Action in the selected Task. Beside each step, there would be a checkbox (maybe unchecked by default for safety) as well as a status indicator. 

The checkboxes would provide the capability to select steps to run and steps to skip. When the button is clicked to execute the task, it would only execute the steps that are checked. This provides extreme flexibility for a user to be able to use the same tasks for slightly different scenarios as well as to rerun a task after a failure and be able to skip the steps that were completed successfully. 

Furthermore, the status indicator would show individual progress of each Action while the task is being executed. It would show which actions have been completed (Success or Failure) and which action is currently being executed. This will provide a much easier interface to monitor as currently a user is required to look through the Console where the various steps of a Task are not explicit plus they are intertwined with other CSM messages. 

A user could open the Task panel to view the details of the task. Since all check boxes are unchecked by default, there would be no change of accidentally executing the task. 

The panel would have standard "Check All" and "Uncheck All" buttons to allow them to quickly select all boxes for a complete run of the task. For certain situations or error scenarios, they could also easily customize which tasks will be executed. 

The user could then click a "Run" button which would start the task and allow them to view the status of each step as the task progresses. 

Since there is a possibility for CSM Tasks to be chained together, it would be nice for the tasks triggered automatically on success or failure to be also shown as that task is executed as well. 

Idea priority Medium