Resurrect process or task

[cbs-michaelyu]

Is in BPMN specification or Activiti implementation that a completed process or task can be restarted.
I think, manually changing the DB tables might be possible. For example, change the "END_TIME_"  column back to NULL, however, there are many tables and columns involved and it is very dangerous practice. I am also not sure whether restarting a completed process or task is against BPMN specification.
For example, we are trying to use Activiti to build up a ticketing system for development team. Once a bug ticket is closed, we might need to reopen it. That's why we come up with this reviving process or task idea.

[frederikherema1]

Reviving processes or task is not possible, the engine doesn't allow this. You can always "model" this into your process, NOT ending the process at all and having eg. a receive-task to trigger a "reopen" of the issue.

In your filters (task/processinstance) you take into account the opened/closed state, using eg. a variable

[venkatesh1987]

Hi Frederik,

I have a similar kind of issue. In our process we have two human tasks A and B...When Task A completes Task B will be created. If Task B is approved Flow ends, where as if Task B is rejected We will re-open the Task A.

In the case of re-opening the Task A , Engine by default creates a new task id in act_ru_task table , is there any possibility to re-open a previous completed Task A instance rather than creating a new task when the flow comes back to Task A again(Second time due to Rejection from Task B)