Create Task and Catalog Task

These two workflow activities are very similar; the primary difference being that the Catalog Task activity specifically creates a record in the Catalog Task [sc_task] table, whereas the Create Task activity can generate a record in any task-derived table.

One important thing to remember about the Create/Catalog Task activities, is that if the Wait for completion tick-box is checked, then the workflow will halt on that activity until the task is placed into a completed state:

If you want to get a pre-defined set of fields (fulfillment group, assigned to, short description, and so on.) and populate them, set the Task values from field to Fields. Setting the Task values from field to Values instead, allows you to set each field value as you prefer, more granularly. In either case, you can check the Advanced tick-box, and use the script field to set any field value on the generated task record. Since the script executes after the values are set from the static fields above it on the activity form, any values set via the script take priority: