topic Re: difference between claim and delegate task in Alfresco Archive

difference between claim and delegate task

marwahussein — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:59:40 GMT

Hello,I have several questions:1- I need to know the difference between claim and delegate task, I know that delegation is to allocate a specific task to another resource before it started and I implemented it in the activiti code I am working on now. But when I tried to claim a task that was delega

Re: difference between claim and delegate task

vasile_dirla — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:31:26 GMT

claim set the assignee and register the claim time in the history service.
delegate, will set the assignee of the task and will set the delegate state to pending.

so booth of them set the assignee that's why you cannot use claim after it was delegated. (did you try to unclaim the task ? it must set the assignee to null)

Re: difference between claim and delegate task

marwahussein — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:54:08 GMT

Yeah it worked I tried to unclaim it first and claim it again with a new user..thank you so much
Is there any way in activity to represent the start of a task even in non direct way ? I need it in my work so I can map those events to a reference lifecycle and create new events