Service Task Documentation

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## Walkthrough The pull request introduces a new documentation file, `service_tasks.md`, within the SpiffWorkflow framework, detailing the concept and implementation of Service Tasks. It includes sections on use cases, setup instructions, and important guidelines for configuring these tasks to interact with external services. Additionally, the documentation provides two practical examples demonstrating the retrieval of data from external APIs. The `index.md` file is updated to include this new documentation in the table of contents. ## Changes | File Path | Change Summary | |------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | docs/Building_Diagrams/service_tasks.md | - Added new sections: **Service Tasks**, **Use Cases for Service Tasks**, **Setting Up a Service Task in SpiffWorkflow**, **Important Guidelines**.
- Included examples for retrieving data from BambooHR API and fetching mock data from JSONPlaceholder API. | | docs/index.md | - Added new entry for `Building_Diagrams/service_tasks.md` in the table of contents. | ## Possibly related PRs - **#2111**: Enhances documentation related to message events, which may involve similar concepts of task automation and interaction with external services as described in the main PR about Service Tasks. ## Suggested reviewers - burnettk

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sartography / spiff-arena

Service Task Documentation #2146

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