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Question on behavior of sub tasks and parent task

rohail — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:15:56 GMT

Hello, I created a subtask to a task through code, then called task.complete on the parent task. This caused activiti engine to mark the parent task as complete and move on in the workflow. Is there any way to force that the parent task cannot be marked as complete until the subtasks are completed?

Re: Question on behavior of sub tasks and parent task

jbarrez — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:08:57 GMT

No, that functionality is currently not in the engine and it would have to be added. It's not on our planning … so if you need it and can code it, a pull request is more than welcome!

Re: Question on behavior of sub tasks and parent task

aurelienpel — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:42:26 GMT

Hi there,

I thought about this problem, so I will share you what I did, because I had the same problem.
First of all, I am using REST API.

So, when I want to complete a task, I would like to check if there's no subtask(s). At the beginning, I do a GET call with
<code>
GET runtime/tasks/" + myTaskId + "/subtasks
</code>
if it retrieves null, I can complete the task, otherwise I force the completion of the subtasks.

When I want to create a subtask, I create a normal one, and at the end I give a "parentTaskId". So when I edit my subtask, I can see that the field "parentTaskId" has a value, and when I want to complete this parent task, it will retrieve impossible because of existing subtask(s).

If this helped anyone …

Regards,

Aurelien

Re: Question on behavior of sub tasks and parent task

jbarrez — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:35:42 GMT

Adding your own findings to a post always helps!