Creating a task is not unlike creating a map or a layout. It requires some thought and planning to create a successful task. The time spent on the frontend of creating a task will alleviate a lot of frustration and headaches later for yourself and for those that use the tasks you create.
Just as you did before when creating a layout, you need to answer several questions:
What is the purpose or goal of the task?
What is the workflow that supports the purpose?
How will it be used?
Who is the audience for your task?
The answers to these questions will impact the design of your tasks. They will help determine the number of steps to include, which steps may need to be run automatically, the level of instruction you need to provide, what tools need to be included as a step, and more.
After answering those questions, you will then be ready to start creating your task. This may require you to start by creating a new Task Item and then creating tasks or Task Groups within that item or you...