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title: "Resource tasks"
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description: "Learn about resource tasks, their creation, assignment, and management across projects, production, and services for efficient planning and execution."
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updated: 2026-06-25T07:57:56Z
published: 2026-06-25T09:59:17Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.staedean.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Resource tasks

A resource task serves as a common entity between different activities. Tasks can originate from production, service, assembly, or projects. You can also create user-defined resource tasks. These **Resource** tasks are not linked to a source document.

Tasks plan the activities of resources by assigning a resource or a resource group to a task. The assigned resource task is then the basis for planning. Without assignments, tasks can also be used as a to-do list for a resource or a department based on the task type. In this scenario, a resource can select a task from a list and start and stop the task.

The resource task is automatically created from the various planning functions:

- **Project**: by releasing the project task.
- **Assembly**: by releasing the assembly order.
- **Service**: by the repair status code.
- **Production**: by creating or refreshing a released production order (when the Manufacturing Integration app is installed).
- **Absence**: through registration in Absence. Future absence plans time off for availability purposes.
- **Resource**: user-defined (manually created) miscellaneous tasks specified by work type.

## Product video

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## Learn more

To learn more on resource tasks, see the references in the following table:

| To | See |
| --- | --- |
| Set up resource tasks | [Resource task setup](/business-central/docs/bc-resource-task-setup) |
| Set up resource task search | [Resource task search setup](/business-central/docs/bc-resource-task-search-setup) |
| Create resource tasks | [Create resource tasks](/business-central/docs/bc-create-resource-tasks) |
| Assign resource tasks | [Resource task assignment](/business-central/docs/bc-resource-task-assignment) |
| Start and stop resource tasks | [Start and stop resource tasks](/business-central/docs/bc-start-and-stop-resource-tasks) |
| Assign groups to resource tasks | [Resource task group assignments](/business-central/docs/bc-resource-task-group-assignments) |
| Learn about planning controlled tasks | [Planning controlled tasks](/business-central/docs/bc-planning-controlled-tasks) |
| Learn about the time registration progress | [Time registration progress](/business-central/docs/bc-time-registration-progress) |
| Set up recurrence and suspension of resource tasks | [Recurrence and suspension of resource tasks](/business-central/docs/bc-recurrence-and-suspension-of-resource-tasks) |

> [!NOTE]
> Notes
> 
> The following notes apply to resource tasks:
> 
> - Resource **Capacity** is important to monitor whether the time sheet is complete. For example, if the capacity of a resource is 40 hours, the time sheet is complete when all 40 hours are accounted for in the time sheet lines.
> - In Industrial Equipment Manufacturing-RM, **Work Type** is mandatory on a **Resource card**. Additional work types can be set through the **Work Type** action. These work types control posting in the time sheet.
> - You can create repeating sub-tasks with the **Recurrence** feature.
> - Assigned tasks are listed per resource. From the **Resource card**, select **Related Information** > **Resource** > **Tasks** > **My Assignments**.
> - The **Clean-up Tasks** periodic activity sets the status of a resource task to **Terminated** when the source document no longer exists. Resource tasks are not removed because that would also remove the link with the posted entry.
> - In **Resource Setup**, a **Global Stop Time** is available combined with a batch function. This batch function ends tasks that were not stopped, for example, at the end of a work day. Note that the global stop function runs on a specified date, which is the stop date for the found tasks. If a task must continue after the global stop time, mark it as **Exempt from Global Stop** on the **Resource Task card**.
> - When a task runs over several days, a stop entry is created at midnight and immediately creates a new entry for the new day. This continues until the resource creates a stop entry. The days between the initial start and the final stop are treated as 24-hour days. Only the time input line with the final stop entry, and the duration of that final day, is copied to the time sheet. **Note**: When resource tasks are used in production, the final time input line also contains the output details
> - A resource can be allowed to start and stop tasks for other resources based on the delegation function on the **Resource card**.

## Related

- [Resource Management](/bc-resource-management.md)