Out of Office - Work as a substitute performer

When a colleague can not do their tasks due to Out of office reasons, you can be assigned as a substitute performer. This can be great when you do not want the processes to stop and wait for the original performer to return. 

When a colleague enables the Out of office function and adds you as a substitute performer you get an email stating the from and to date, a message, and the name of the regarded application(s).

How to work as a substitute performer

To access the original performer's tasks you go to your lists.

Under your own tasks and lists shared to you, there is a new section visible[Original performers] list. There you can access all tasks connected to application(s) the original performer assigned to you. 

A substitute user will only receive the Out of office user’s email notifications if the Out of office user was directly assigned to the task, not assigned via a group.

A substitute user will NOT get notification mail that was meant for the out of office user if the target of the mail was based on a form value. For example: "Mail the person in field Form.Field1". In cases like this where the email recipient is linked through a value list, then the email will only be sent to the Out of office user and not the substitute. 

When you open the task that you are assigned to as a substitute, you will see a yellow banner at the top of the task that says, "This task has been delegated to you by [Original performer]." 

To complete the task 

1. Click on Switch user and select the name of the original performer, the person who you are acting as a substitute for, not your own name.
   In this example, John Doe is out of office and Jane Doe is performing his task for him. Jane will select the name John Doe. 
   
   
   
2. Complete the task's requirements.
3. Click on the Complete task button. 

The Performed by information for the task (found in the Instance overview) will indicate that the task was performed by the substitute user, not by the original performer.

What happens when the original performer returns

When the original performer returns, at the specified end time, or when the Out of office is terminated prior to the end date the substitute performer gets an email with the information that the original performer has returned. 

This also makes the additional list disappear and the substitute performer will no longer have the ability to access the original performer's tasks.