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Where can I find the "async action" dialog?

  • July 7, 2026
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On a Task or Report you can set the “Await result” value to “Optional”.

In the docs it is explained like this:
Optional - The user has to wait (option 1) but has the possibility to continue the action in the background (option 3). Reports executed in the background can be monitored in the Async action dialog.

Where can I find this “Async action” dialog?

I know in the windows GUI you had the “Running tasks”, but I cannot find such a thing in the Universal GUI.

Best answer by Sebastiaan Meijerink

​@Mark_Plaggenborg That is a very good question. This might be a flaw in the docs, because I do not believe this actually exists. I can only find a comment from 2023 that it was deemed deprecated. I will put this to the attention of the docs team.

You could notify the user when the task is done. 

Do you feel this would be a valuable addition to re-instate?

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    ​@Mark_Plaggenborg That is a very good question. This might be a flaw in the docs, because I do not believe this actually exists. I can only find a comment from 2023 that it was deemed deprecated. I will put this to the attention of the docs team.

    You could notify the user when the task is done. 

    Do you feel this would be a valuable addition to re-instate?

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    Superhero

    ​@Sebastiaan Meijerink Thanks for the response. That explains things.

    I could still see use for the window as one can check if something is still running. Let’s say I have a rather simple task that takes a while, but a user is using this method to run the task for 6 different record. Notifying the user could technically work, but now the user has to count how many he has received the information.

    And if it turns out to be 5, what is the reason for not 6? Failed, still running, missed the notification? Quite a good reason to be able to see the background tasks progress/history I think.

    I’ll probably make an idea for this.

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