Camunda task group assignation

[Facundo Farias]

Hello there!

I am quite new with camunda 7.2, we are using the java API embedded on out platform, basically to handle workflows.

The thing is, I've modeled a new process by using the Eclipse Modeler, I am able to load it and everything goes good, but I am not able to assign any task to a given group. 

So far, I've set the following attributes:

camunda:assignee="test" camunda:candidateGroups="testGroup"

So afterwards, by using the taskService I am able to see that the task was assigned to the given user, but I cannot see the task if I ask for the group. Perhaps is because I don't understand what candidate group means, or how can I assign directly the task to a given group.

In our case, what we want is to create the process and by default, it should be assigned to a given group, so then the users can login and pick the tasks that are already on their group. Is this a valid use case?

Thanks a lot!

Facundo

[Daniel Meyer]

Hi Facundo,

How do you query for the tasks?

Regards,

Daniel

[Facundo Farias]

This what I am doing to get the group tasks:

        FilterService filterSvc = engine.getFilterService();

        TaskService taskSvc = engine.getTaskService();

        IdentityService identitySvc = engine.getIdentityService();

        // create a taskQuery

        List<Group> groups = identitySvc.createGroupQuery().groupMember(username).list();

        String groupId = groups.size() != 0 ? groups.get(0).getId() : "";

        TaskQuery myTasksQuery = taskSvc.createTaskQuery().taskCandidateGroup(groupId).active();

        // save taskQuery as filter

        Filter myTasksFilter = filterSvc.newTaskFilter("My Group Tasks");

        myTasksFilter.setOwner("john.doe");

        myTasksFilter.setQuery(myTasksQuery);

        String filterId = filterSvc.saveFilter(myTasksFilter).getId();

        // execute the filter

        List<Task> tasks = filterSvc.list(filterId);

        return tasks;

Do you find some mistake in it? 

[Sebastian Menski]

Hi Facundo,

please note if a task is assigned to a user it is not returned for the candidate group, because it is already assigned. This post had a similar problem [1].

Cheers,

Sebastian

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/camunda-bpm-users/O-feX_RBLe8/DBaFQYPAE0IJ

[Facundo Farias]

Right, so you recommend no to assign the task to a given user at the very beginning and in this way, it will be available for the group?

[Facundo Farias]

Thanks, Sebastian, you were right.

Now I have another question, is there a way to query all the tasks of a given group, it doesn't matter if it is assigned or not?

Example: The help desk group want to see all the tasks that are enqueued on their task-list (assigned or not).

Thanks!

El martes, 27 de enero de 2015, 11:57:19 (UTC+1), Sebastian Menski escribió:

[Sebastian Menski]

Hi Facundo,

if you want to specify that a user of a group should complete a task set the candidate group for this task in your process. If a user then starts to work

on this task it should be assigned to him and so the other users of the candidate group can't see the task anymore and so two users will not work on

the same task.

Cheers,
Sebastian

[Sebastian Menski]

Hi Facundo,

I'm sorry but I'm currently not aware if this is possible with the Java API. Maybe somebody else has a solution for this.

Cheers,

Sebastian

[Daniel Meyer]

Does this feature request correspond to your requirements?

https://app.camunda.com/jira/browse/CAM-3257

If true, please vote for it

Daniel

[Facundo Farias]

Perfect, I've just voted the feature.

Thanks

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