Cloning of a task

[geekykrish]

HI All,
  I am having a scenario where I want to clone a completed task and create a new task from java. When I try to achieve this from java I am able to set all other parameters other than execution id and process definition id. can some body help out in cloning a completed task from java.Thanks in advance friends.

[jbarrez]

You need a TaskListener that listens for the completion event. Create a new task from the data you get in.

Now, the tricky thing is to set the process insance / execution id - how would you want to fit it in your process? It would need sequenflow and all that to work and to make the other logic work.

So i dont know if that's a good idea actually. What is your use case?

[geekykrish]

My use case in in certain scenario I will enter a parallel flow and at some point if a condition is true in the parallel flow i need to halt the parallel process and proceed the next user task in the flow once the user completes the task then i need to resume the parallel flow from the state in which it is halted.

[jbarrez]

I re-read your post multiple times, but i couldn't understand it, sorry. Can you please use punctuation in your sentences?

[nisaxena]

I have kind of same requirement, my use case is (In a particular scenario) when a process will move from 'taskA' to 'taskB'. The task should remain at both the places. I was thinking about either any clone functionality or may be a subTask, but I cannot see anything like that in the API. Can you please guide something?

[jbarrez]

No, that's not possible because it goes against the BPMN 2.0 spec.

What is your use case? I can't see anything directly that would need such functionality in a BPM system.

[aimingxu]

I have a use case like this: author submit an article to reviewer, the reviewer who was assigned to the task can further assign it to one or many reviewers at runtime to review. I thought that subtask can be created and assigned at runtime but I want subtask to see and do the same as parent task can do such as see attached article and author filled form. So the function is to create a subtask that is a clone of its parent task. Appreciate your help on how to implement this capability.

[trademak]

You could create a sub task and then in your UI logic gather all info attached to the parent task.

Best regards,

[aimingxu]

Thanks, Tijs. If UI is not Java based, does Activiti REST API provides the same functionality as Activiti Engine Java API?

Thanks,
Aiming

[trademak]

Yes, it should provide the same functionality. And if not please raise it with us and we can add the requested functionality to the REST API.

Best regards,