# Custom task query to remote server

**URL:** <https://forum.flowable.org/t/custom-task-query-to-remote-server/9298>\
**Category:** Flowable Engine\
**Created:** [May 9, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/custom-task-query-to-remote-server/9298 "2022-05-09T08:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![wouterluijten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a5b964/32.png) [@wouterluijten](https://forum.flowable.org/u/wouterluijten)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/custom-task-query-to-remote-server/9298/1 "2022-05-09T08:41:32Z")

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We’ve got flowable running in a docker container and would like to query tasks based on process variables. The current REST api won’t let us do that so we’re looking for different solutions. What would be the best way forward? Can we somehow plug into the remote server and create a processEngine instance (so we can retrieve a taskService object to perform our custom queries with)?

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**Author:** ![joram](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/joram/32/26_2.png) [@joram](https://forum.flowable.org/u/joram)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/custom-task-query-to-remote-server/9298/2 "2022-05-16T15:42:48Z")

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> [@wouterluijten](#):
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> We’ve got flowable running in a docker container and would like to query tasks based on process variables. The current REST api won’t let us do that so we’re looking for different solutions.

Looking into the code, it does allow that: [https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/main/modules/flowable-rest/src/main/java/org/flowable/rest/service/api/runtime/task/TaskBaseResource.java#L439](https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/main/modules/flowable-rest/src/main/java/org/flowable/rest/service/api/runtime/task/TaskBaseResource.java#L439)

What query have you tried that doesn’t work?