> #### 4.5.7 Accept or decline an activity

> Accept-decline is an optional feature of Interstage BPM that gives you increased control over activities. If you accept a work item, it disappears from your list of active activities and appears on your list of accepted activities. You lock it so that no one else can work on it. For everyone else, it becomes inactive, and you alone can use it to modify user-defined process attributes, or to add or delete attachments of the process instance. If you decline a work item, you have rejected it, and it disappears from your list of active activities. It re-appears on your list of declined activities.

> Note You must resume a suspended process instance before accepting one of its work items that is assigned to you. If you attempt to accept a work item that is in a suspended state, you will receive an error message, and you will be unsuccessful in accepting the work item.

> If you are an assignee of a work item, you can accept or decline it by first selecting the Organizer Work List pane, and then selecting the work item.

> Click Accept or Decline.

> Figure 28: Accepting or Declining an Activity

> Note: You do not have to accept or decline a work item to work on it.

> After accepting it, you may later decline it or reassign it. However if you are the process instance owner, you can reassign an activity without accepting the work item (activity). If you decline it, it again becomes active for all of the other original assignees.

> If all assignees decline a work item, active work items are created for each of the process instance owners. However, if all process instance owners decline their work items, the work items become active for all of them again.

> Note When the Work Item is associated with a Voting Activity; Interstage BPM behaves differently with regard to accepting and declining activities. Accepting or declining Voting Work Items has no effect on the Work Items of the other assignees to which the Work Item is assigned. Also, declining a Work Item removes you from the Voter Pool, thereby decreasing its size.

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