topic Re: Is it possible for many users to work on a same task? in Alfresco Archive

Is it possible for many users to work on a same task?

coincoin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:08:15 GMT

Hi.I would like many users can work on the same task. I saw in the users guide:"Only one user can be assigned as human performer to the task. In Activiti terminology, this user is called the assignee. Task that have an assignee are not visible in the task lists of other people, and are found in the

Re: Is it possible for many users to work on a same task?

frederikherema1 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:01:27 GMT

You can use groups to mark a task as being "claimable by a member of group X". This make the task appear in a query that looks for all tasks a user is candidate for. Once the task is claimed, it's "assigned" to a single user and won't show up in the query for other group-members.

If your application doesn't actually "claim" the task, when a user is working on it, it will still be available for that query. You could, for example, use a property on the task/process that holds the users that are currently working on the task…

Re: Is it possible for many users to work on a same task?

coincoin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:34:31 GMT

Thanks for your answer.

I will choose this solution.