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Extending the Activiti Designer - Custom (User) Tasks

thensgens — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:00:09 GMT

Hello,regarding the designer's extensibility , I'm trying to add a new (user) task in the designer. According to the documentation, this step will only allow new custom task to be treated as regular service tasks, but specifically in my case this is not really what I want.My (new user) task should

Re: Extending the Activiti Designer - Custom (User) Tasks

jbarrez — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:10:13 GMT

UserTasks are implemented as service tasks under the covers. Check the UserTaskActivityBehaviour.

You can customize the behaviour and replace it with your own using the ActivityBehaviourFactory pluggability.

Re: Extending the Activiti Designer - Custom (User) Tasks

thensgens — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:31:48 GMT

Interesting, thanks.
From my understanding, the TaskService merely provides 'access' to user task (which are apparently service task under the hood, but are certainly treated differently since only these tasks are changeable in the task service), so I have to somehow allow newly specified tasks (by extending the Activiti Designer) to be treated as 'user tasks'. By extending the Activiti Designer, the generated output of a custom task uses the xml tag 'serviceTask', while your regular 'user task' uses 'userTask' as an XML tag representation.