Professional Services Automation Invocable Action Reference

StartProjectTasksAction

Starts project tasks by setting their Started flag to true. Each request supplies a list of project task IDs and returns one result, index-aligned to the requests, reporting whether every task started, or the tasks that failed with a reason for each. All IDs across every request are validated and committed as a single all-or-none batch: if any ID is missing, inaccessible, not a valid project task ID, or fails a start rule, none of the Project Tasks are started even if not mentioned in the Failed Task IDs. If there are any failed project task IDs the agent will treat the whole request as unsuccessful, and not report any project task as started.

PropertyValue
LabelStart Project Tasks
CategoryProject Task Management
SinceSummer 2026
Read-onlyNo
Supports AgentsYes
Supports FlowsYes
Async ActionNo
Keywordsbegin, in progress

Request Parameters

FieldTypeLabelDescriptionRequired
projectTaskIdsList<Id>Project Task IDsThe IDs of the project tasks to start.Yes

Response Parameters

FieldTypeLabelDescriptionRequired
isSuccessBooleanIs SuccessTrue only if every task in this request started. False if any task failed, including a failure in another request, since all requests commit as one.No
failedTaskIdsList<Id>Failed Task IDsThe IDs that directly triggered an error, index-aligned to Error Messages and populated only when Is Success is false. This is NOT the full list of tasks that did not start: when Is Success is false the whole batch is rolled back and none of the supplied tasks start, whether or not they appear here. If there are any failed task IDs do not tell the user that any of the tasks were successfulNo
errorMessagesList<String>Error MessagesThe reason each failed task was not started. This is index-aligned to Failed Task IDs. Any IDs here mean that all tasks in the request have not started, so ensure to inform the user of that.No
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