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Create general tasks for your clients to inform them of outstanding information you need, or remind them of activities they have to do. You can also attach any documents, if you need to.When you create a general task, your client will be notified by email that there's a task waiting for them to action.

Prerequisites to creating

tasks

You can create tasks for a client in MYOB Practice Online if you:

How to create a general task

You can create tasks in MYOB Practice Online:

  • when selecting clients on the Accounting dashboard, or
  • from the Tasks page.

 

An advantage of creating tasks from the Accounting dashboard is that you can assign the same task to multiple clients in one go.

For example, it's easy to create "bulk " from the Accounting dashboard when you want to send several clients a practice newsletter, or a generic checklist of information and documents you'll need for their next tax return. The task will be assigned to all "full access users" of the client portals.

 

  • Click Accounting on the left of MYOB Practice Online to display the Accounting dashboard.

  • Select all the clients you want to assign the same task to.
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    1. Click Tasks in the top menu bar.
      On the Tasks page you can create tasks, and view open and completed tasks that were created in MYOB Practice, Accountants Office or Accountants Enterprise.
    2. Click Create task.Image RemovedIn the Create tasks page that appears, enter a Task name.
      This will be the subject of the email that is sent to your clients. It will also be the title that appears on your Tasks page and the Tasks page in your clients' portals.
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      Enter a Description.
      This will be the body of the email to your clients giving them more details concerning the task.
      Enter or select the Due date for the general task to be completed. Enter a date in dd/mm/yyyy format or click the calendar Image Removedicon to select a due date for the general task to be completed.
    3. Attach any supporting documents relevant to the task by clicking Add attachment.

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      The maximum file size for a document that you can attach to a task is 18MB.

    4. Click Create task.
      A task is created on your Tasks > Open tasks page and on your clients' Tasks > Open Tasks page.
      An email will be sent to your clients letting them know that you've assigned them a task.
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    1. Click Tasks on the left of MYOB Practice Online to display all your open tasks.

    2. Click Create Task.

    3. Select the client and the user within the portal who will be assigned the task.
      Once you've selected your client, only the particular users of the client portal will be available for selection in the Assign to fieldSelect the client. Only clients who you’ve already set up a portal for appear in the list.
    4. Select the full-access users that you want to assign the task to. These users are part of the client’s portal setup. If the user you want to assign the task to doesn’t appear you’ll need to cancel the task and create them first.
    5. You can assign the task to a contributor as well, such as the client’s bookkeeper. If the contributor isn’t listed, you can add them now by clicking Add other contributors.
    6. Select who in your practice should appear to be the sender of the task to the client.

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      If you didn’t specify a default 'Send as' user in the client’s portal settings, your name will be selected by default. If you need to change the selected person, click the X and select a practice user. That way the client will address the correct practice user when replying to the task.

    7. Select who in your practice needs to be notified when a client adds a comment to the task, or approves a document attached to the task.

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      If you didn’t specify a default practice user in the client’s portal settings, your name will appear here. You can include other users who should be notified for any activity by clicking Add someone to notify. You should include the task sender (the person selected in the Send as section) as a minimum. 

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      You can include the practice alias as the task sender and also add it to the Notify list. Learn how to set up a practice alias

    8. Enter a Title for Give the task a title. This title forms will be the subject of the email that will be is sent to your client userthe users. It will also form be the task title of the task that will be displayed on your Tasks page and the Tasks page of in your clientclient’s portal.
    9. Enter a Descriptiondescription. This forms will be the body of your email to your client giving the email the users receive. Give them more details concerning the task.
    10. Attach any supporting Drag one or more files into the Files box to attach documents relevant to the task by clicking Browse.ui-that you want to share with the users, or click browse for files to find files on your computer.
    11. Enter or select the due date for the task to be completed. Enter a date in dd/mm/yyyy format or click the calendar icon Image Added to select a due date.
    12. Click Create task.
      A task is created on your Tasks > Open page and on the client's Tasks > Open tasks portal page. An email is sent to the users and collaborators you selected, letting them know that you've assigned them a task.

     

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    You can also create a general task for one or more clients straight from the Transaction processing page. See the procedure below for step-by-step instructions.

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    The maximum file size for a document that you can attach to a task is 18MB.

    When you create a task from the Transaction processing page:

    1. Click Transaction Processing in the top menu bar.

    2. Select all the clients you want to assign the same task to.

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      Remember that the clients must be linked to their files, and already have client portals.

    3. Click Create task.

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    4. In the General Task page that appears, enter a Title. This will be the subject of the email that is sent to your clients. It will also be the title that appears on your Tasks page and the Tasks page in your clients' portals.

    5. Enter a Description. This will be the body of the email to your clients giving them more details concerning the task.

    6. Add any supporting documents relevant to the task.

       

    7. Enter or select the Due date for the general task to be completed. Enter a date in dd/mm/yyyy format or click the calendar

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    Setting Set a task as complete

    Reopening Reopen a completed task

    Deleting Delete a task