Hi Frank, Activiti has not defined states compliant with WS-HumanTask. It has only Created, Claimed and Completed states.
Regards, Vinod On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Frank Leymann <fr...@wso2.com> wrote: > Dear Vinod, > > BPMN 2.0 explicitly refers to WS-HumanTask as implementation of a User > Task (see pp 166 ff) - although they say that there are many potential > different implementations, HumanTask is preferred (...and I co-authored > these sections, summarizing the position of the group ;-)). Thus, BPMN 2.0 > does not refer to any states because its implementation dependent, but each > implementation has to define the states - otherwise we run into non-defined > situations we are discussion here. Has Activiti these states defined? > > > Best regards, > Frank > > 2016-06-06 7:41 GMT+02:00 Vinod Kavinda <vi...@wso2.com>: > >> Please find my comments inline.. >> >>> >>> >>>> *Task Reassignment at the end of substitution period* >>>> When a user that was on vacation come back, we will not assign his past >>>> tasks back to himself from his substitute. Since we cannot track the >>>> progress of the tasks once it is assigned to a user, this is not >>>> reasonable. >>>> We will stop substitution of future tasks at this point. >>>> >>> >>> That's not typically what is required. We should at least reassign >>> tasks that are not yet InProgess. But Ready and Reserved tasks should be >>> reassigned to the user returned in any case. >>> >> >> Totally agreed to this if it is in a WS-Human task context. >> >> We are considering User tasks in BPMN here. In Activiti there is no such >> notion as task status. There is no such status like "In progress". Once a >> task is assigned to someone, we have to assume that he is working on it. >> If we automatically reassign tasks to original user, it will be a mess. >> (eg: in call centers, user A assign his tasks to B and go out. B is on a >> call for a task came from B. While he is on call A comes back, tasks get >> reassigned back to him. He will make another call for the same task, since >> the task is not completed, complete mix up!!) >> >> I don't think we should automatically reassign without the assignee >> consent. If we really need, we can have a API that a user can retrieve his >> own tasks thet were substituted to someone else. >> >> Vinod Kavinda >> Software Engineer >> *WSO2 Inc. - lean . enterprise . middleware <http://www.wso2.com>.* >> Mobile : +94 (0) 712 415544 >> Blog : http://soatechflicks.blogspot.com/ >> >> > -- Vinod Kavinda Software Engineer *WSO2 Inc. - lean . enterprise . middleware <http://www.wso2.com>.* Mobile : +94 (0) 712 415544 Blog : http://soatechflicks.blogspot.com/
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