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Task Dialog

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Design a task dialog when you want to support the user in starting, progressing, or completing a routine task in such a way that the user cannot continue with other work before dismissing the dialog.

Task Dialog guidelines

From the user’s perspective, the following are qualities of a well-designed task dialog page:

  • Is used for dialog with the user that starts, progresses, or completes a routine task, not for situations that are unexpected or exceptional.

  • Has a title and instructional text as required to describe the task context in the users’ language.

  • Includes as few input fields as possible. Fields are grouped and ordered in the typical sequence of input.

  • Includes details only as required to understand the context for the task.

  • Provides one or more dismiss buttons with captions that unambiguously describes the function of each button.

Example of a Task Dialog

Task dialog taking input before copying job task

See Also

Concepts

Message Dialog
Lookup Dialog
Wizard Dialog