Who sees and updates a task

Summary: Why a task is in your My activities, what each of your roles lets you do with it there, and when to use Active tasks instead.

Applies to

Property	Value
Product	LYNX-X
Version	28.10.9846.0
Required permissions	Any user with a role on a task
Last updated	2026-10-13
Owner	Support

Overview

LYNX-X has two task lists for work in progress.

My activities (Focus > My activities) shows the tasks you are connected to, across all your projects. Two people open it and see different lists: each list is built from that person's roles.
Active tasks (Portfolio > Active tasks) shows the work of every released project, whatever your role. Use it for the overview of all projects.

Both lists show only tasks of released projects. A project that is not released yet has no tasks in either list. See Releasing a project.

A task is in your My activities because of one of the roles below. Role at the top of the list narrows it to one role at a time.

Fields

Why a task is in your My activities

Your role	The tasks you see	What you do with them	Where the role is set
Task manager	The tasks you manage.	Start the task and report the time left for the whole task. See Working from My activities and Updating a started task.	On the task, in the project. See Adding a skill or a task manager to a task.
Team manager	The tasks that ask for your skill, also when nobody is named yet or LYNX-X only suggests someone.	Choose the person who does the work. See Managing your people's assignments from My activities.	Configuration > Skills > the skill > Team managers.
Resource manager	The tasks where one of your people is assigned or suggested by LYNX-X.	Check their work and change who does it. See Managing your people's assignments from My activities.	Configuration > Resources > the resource > Details > Resource manager.
Resource	The tasks where the resource linked to your user is named, assigned or suggested by LYNX-X.	Your assignment opens with an Update block: Status, Expected completion, Units (%) and ETTC.	Configuration > Resources > the resource > Details > User.

Which of your roles applies to a task

A task you reach through several roles is listed once. To see your roles on it, select the task, open the Assignments tab of its side panel and select the pencil next to an assignment. Your role names every role you hold on that assignment.

The Assignment dialog of a task reached through three roles

My activities or Active tasks?

	My activities	Active tasks
Where	Focus > My activities	Portfolio > Active tasks
Tasks listed	The tasks you are connected to	The tasks of every released project, whatever your role
Priorities	Stay the same through the day. They change when you select Refresh in the left rail, or at the daily synchronisation.	Recalculated at once
Filters	Status, Role, Horizon, My tasks only	Status, Role, My tasks only
Use it to	Update your own tasks	Follow all work across projects

Notes

Project manager is not one of the roles that fill My activities. Being the project manager of a project does not put its tasks in your list. To follow all of a project's tasks, use Active tasks or open the project. To have a task in your own list, make yourself its task manager.
A task you expect is missing. Check the roles in the table above for that task, then check that its project is released. In Active tasks, press F5 to refresh the screen after a project is released.
A colleague sees a task that you do not. Their list is built from their roles, yours from yours. Select Role to see which of your roles each task comes from.

Revision history

Version	Date	Author	Changes
1.0	2026-10-13	Support	New article.

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