Create Task and assign to CandidateGroup

Flowable Engine
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Hi.

I’ve just started using Flowable and I’m still working through the tutorials so apologies in advance if I’ve missed something obvious.

Using the BPMN editor example (“holiday Request”) I see that a userTask (the “Approve or Reject Request”) in the flow definition is assigned to a candidateGroup called “managers”.

<userTask id="approveTask" name="Approve or reject request" flowable:candidateGroups="managers"></userTask>

If I instantiate an instance of the process and invoke the following code I get the task returned OK:

taskService.createTaskQuery().taskCandidateGroup(group).list();

The issue is when I try to create a new task manually, and get it assigned to the same “managers” candidateGroup using the API.

Task task = taskService.newTask();

The only relevant options I can see on the “task” variable are “setOwner” and “setAssignee”, neither of which have the task returned in the list above if I set the values to “managers”.

Is there a way to create a task manually via the API and have it work in a similar fashion to the XML definition?

Thanks in advance
Steve

2

Hi Steve,

use taskService to add candidate user/group to the task.

        task = taskService.newTask();
        task.setName("test");
        taskService.saveTask(task);

        taskService.addCandidateGroup(task.getId(), "sales");
        taskService.addCandidateUser(task.getId(), "kermit");

Regards
Martin

3

Hi Martin

That worked a treat - thanks very much for your quick assistance!

Kind regards
Steve