It will we useful to have the possibility to mark a task as flagged, programmatically based on a business rule, at the moment of task creation. (For example If n a process a user marks a contract as Urgent, in a Helpdesk Application a user marks a ticket as Critical, etc. when sending in next step/assigning to other user that user task should appear as flagged)
Reason for this request: As higher in hierarchy a manager is, as more probable that he will have tasks from many applications / processes. By given them the task already flagged will allow them to go in My Tasks directly from the portal main page, and focus first on those ones that are flagged, rather to have them reading all and deciding when they should flag it or not for later reviews. (Of course they will still have the possibility to clear the flag if they don't consider it important or postpone it. The rest of My task functionality should remain like it is no change is needed).