What action can you take after a business process completes?

The "Rescind" action is a corrective measure specifically designed to be used on a business process that has already been successfully completed. When a business process is rescinded, Workday reverses the entire transaction, effectively undoing the changes made and returning the data to its state prior to the process's initiation. This action is available from the business process event's related actions menu. Actions like Cancel, Reassign, and Delegate are applicable only to business processes or tasks that are currently in progress, not completed ones.

A. Cancel: This action is used to stop a business process that is currently in progress, preventing it from ever reaching completion.
B. Reassign: This action transfers an in-progress inbox task (e.g., an approval) from its current assignee to another user.
D. Delegate: This is a user-level function to forward future inbox tasks to another person; it is not an action taken on a specific completed process.

1. Workday Documentation, "Business Process Administration Guide": This guide details the lifecycle of business process events. In the section "Corrective Actions on Business Process Events," it explicitly states, "You can rescind successfully completed business process events... Rescinding an event reverses a transaction in its entirety." It contrasts this with "Cancel," which is described as an action for "in-progress business process events."

2. University of Washington, "Workday User Guides - Business Processes": The guide on navigating and managing business processes explains that "Rescind is an action that can be taken on a business process that has successfully completed... It will completely back out the transaction." (See section: Managing Business Processes, Corrective Actions).

3. Carnegie Mellon University, "Workday Training - Business Process Overview": Course materials specify the available actions based on process status. The documentation clarifies that "Rescind" is a post-completion action, whereas "Reassign" and "Delegate" are actions performed on active, in-flight tasks within a business process. (See module: BP Corrective Actions).