topic Cancel/Skip running task in Alfresco Archive

Cancel/Skip running task

r0main — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:47:24 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to find a way to cancel/skip a task that is part of a running process (it could be a user task, an service task, …). I looked into Activiti's functionalities but I only found a function to delete a task (that is not part of a running process).Let's say that a newser is waiting for a re

Re: Cancel/Skip running task

pmsevestre — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:08:45 GMT

Human Tasks can be unclaimed or delegated via API and REST.

Other activity types (system tasks, message tasks, etc) are trickier because they usually change the process instance state and so you cannot simply skip them - unless you model that in your process. In version 5.14 you have a new API that allows you to execute custom commands that can do this kind instance maipulation.

Re: Cancel/Skip running task

trademak — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:27:36 GMT

That's custom functionality you would need to implement yourself and expose to your application. The Activiti API allows you to complete the review task so why not just invoke the complete method on that task?

Best regards,

Re: Cancel/Skip running task

r0main — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:27:12 GMT

Hi Tijs,

Thanks for your reply, calling the complete method on the task seems a reasonable option.

Best regards,
Romain.