Step 4: Task customization in workflows of media organization

No matter whether it comes to arranging corporate events, tradeshows, business expos or advertising, your media organization should produce high-quality media products (e.g. infomercial, telecast, webcast, etc.). Task customization offers you flexibility and efficiency in managing media workflows. If to introduce the mechanism of task customization into workflows of your media company, your employees and managers will benefit from advanced options for developing and producing high-quality media products.

For example, Publishing Department of your media company can be involved in organization and production of media products for business. This department in cooperation with Radio/TV Department will need to run media production workflow to write, edit and produce media products (e.g. infomercial, multi-media presentations, broadcasting, and video tape demonstrations). Media production workflow may include a series of customized tasks. Task customization is very important as it allows meeting special requirements of media production workflow.VIP Task Manager serves as an excellent tool for managing, customizing and tracking tasks to produce high-quality media products.

VIP Task Manager allows creating and editing user-defined fields by means of Custom Fields Editor. The software makes it easy for you to create task custom fields in few mouse clicks. Any department of your media company can run specific workflows where tasks show maximum information on current customer orders. In our example, Publishing Department can use Custom Fields Editor to run a comprehensive media production workflow in which tasks are specified by several custom fields. These custom fields are shown below

• Type of media project. This custom field lets see in common task lists of media production workflow what media products are ordered by customers. The custom field may include the following names of media products: Infomercial, Presentation, Broadcasting, Video Demonstration, Photo Session, and Video Business Card.
• Printed materials. Almost any media project requires printed materials (posters, booklets, etc.) to make the final product more informative and promotional. The custom field may include the following printed materials: Books, Posters, Labels, Flyers, and DVD/CD.
• Quantity and Price. These two custom fields allow making calculations and defining the final amount that is due to be paid by customers for media products.

1. Step 1: Criteria for choosing software solution for media organization
2. Step 2: Organizing media company staff
3. Step 3: Workflow management solution for media organization
4. >> Step 4: Task customization in workflows of media organization
5. Step 5: Planning tasks in workflows of media organization
6. Step 6: Sharing tasks in workflows of media organization
7. Step 7: Tasks and documents in workflows of media organization
8. Step 8: Tracking tasks in workflows and projects of media organization
9. Step 9: Reporting tasks in workflows of media organization
10. Step 10: Managing KPIs in workflows of media organization