My Work in CWM

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of My Work in CWM

    My Work in Collaborative Work Management (CWM) provides a centralized workspace for managing various tasks including CWM tasks, project tasks, RIDAC items, and Agile stories. This feature consolidates tasks from both CWM and Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) workspaces, allowing users to visualize their tasks by state, priority, and key metrics like open and overdue items.

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    Key Features

    • Two Views: My Work offers Overview and List tabs. The Overview tab displays multiple widgets with progress information and filter options, while the List tab presents all open work items in a list or grid format.
    • Widgets in Overview:
      • Overall Progress: Percentage of completed work.
      • My Open Items: Count of pending work items, with clickable links to view details.
      • My Overdue Items: Count of overdue work items, leading to a detailed view.
      • Completed: Number of completed items with a link to view them.
      • Task by State: Bar chart grouping tasks by state, allowing users to click for detailed views.
      • Task by Priority: Bar chart grouping tasks by priority, with clickable details.
      • Filters: Options to filter work items by type (e.g., CWM Tasks, Project Tasks) and date ranges.
    • List View: Displays all open work items assigned to you, with links to detailed views and source items.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing My Work in CWM, users can effectively manage their tasks, prioritize their workload, and stay on top of deadlines. The ability to filter and visualize work items enhances productivity and ensures that important tasks are not overlooked.

    Manage all your work such as CWM tasks, project tasks, RIDAC items, and Agile stories from a centralized view in the Collaborative Work Management workspace.

    My Work in CWM consolidates all your tasks across CWM and Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) workspaces, provides visualizations around work such as task grouping by state, priority, and key metrics such as open and overdue items.

    Tasks in My Work include all work items for which you are added to the Assigned to or Additional assignee fields.

    Figure 1. Overview tab of My Work
    My Work filters in CWM.
    My Work page has two views, Overview and List.
    • Overview tab shows multiple widgets that provide information related to the progress of your work. It also enables you to apply filters on the type of tasks that you want to view.
    • List tab shows all open work items assigned to you in a list or grid format, where you can apply the group by and filter options on the columns.

      List view also provides a link back to the source of the work item. For example, if your work item is a Risk, the Source column in the List view provides a navigation to the RIDAC page of the Project Workspace application.

    Table 1. Overview tab of the My Work page in CWM
    Widget or option Description
    Overall Progress Percentage of work that is completed
    My Open Items Number of work items that are pending.

    Clicking the number opens a list view of all work items assigned to you and are in the Pending state.

    My Overdue Items Number of work items that are overdue.

    Clicking the number opens a list view of all work items assigned to you that are past their due date.

    Completed Number of work items that are complete.

    Clicking the number opens a list view of all work items assigned to you that are in the Closed Complete state.

    Task by State Bar chart that groups all work items assigned to you by their current state. Clicking a bar opens a list of tasks that meet the filter criteria for the corresponding bar.

    For more information on how the tasks are grouped by state, see Grouping of tasks in status reports of CWM My Work.

    Task by Priority Bar chart that groups all work items assigned to you by their priority. Clicking a bar opens a list of tasks that meet the filter criteria for the corresponding bar.

    For more information on how the tasks are grouped by priority, see Grouping of tasks in status reports of CWM My Work.

    Filters Choose the type of work items that you want to view in My Work. Based on the SPM applications that are installed in your ServiceNow instance, the following types are available to choose from:
    • CWM Tasks
    • Project Tasks
    • Demand Tasks
    • Risks
    • Issues
    • Decisions
    • Actions
    • Change Requests
    • Stories
    • Scrum tasks
    Date Filter the tasks by their start and end dates.
    Include open items with no dates Enable display of work items that have no start date, end date, or both.
    • CWM tasks or Project tasks that have the Additional assignee field set to your name are also shown.
    • Project tasks that are assigned to you from the Assigned to or Resource Assignees fields are shown.
    Figure 2. List tab of My Work
    List view of work items from My Work.

    The List view shows all open work items assigned to you. Click the Short description of a work item to view its details in a modal pop up. Click the Source of a work item to open the work item in a new tab.

    Note:
    Connected work items are not shown in the My Work page, unless those items are story, poject task, demand task, or any RIDAC records.