1. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium embodying instructions that when performed by one or more data processors of at least one computing system result in operations comprising: receiving data comprising a task initiation request within a software application, the task initiation request comprising one or more object identifiers and one or more corresponding numerical values, the task initiation request comprising an alphanumeric string specified by a user via a search prompt in a graphical user interface; associating, without further input from the user, the task initiation request with a corresponding task template selected out of a plurality of task templates, the associating being based on the received data; automatically populating at least a portion of the selected task template with the one or more object identifiers and the one or more corresponding numerical values; and presenting the populated task template within the graphical user interface to enable a user to conduct one or more actions specified by the presented populated task template.