Retrieving Human Tasks by their Assignee

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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The task service can be used for retrieving tasks by their assignees, e.g.:

taskService.createTaskQuery()
			.caseInstanceBusinessKey(caseInstanceBusinessKey)
			.taskAssignee(assignee)
			.list();

This works fine for BPMN tasks and ACTIVE CMMN Tasks (see also CMMN - retrieving the form key using the form service - #2 by thorben)

Now how am I able to retrieve CMNN human tasks by their assignee which are not active, e.g. in enabled state? I tried to find a solution by using the caseService, but this wasn’t successfull…

Thank you for your help!

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This is not possible. The assignee is only determined when the actual user task instance is created (task = work item for user, queryable via TaskService) and this only happens when the CMMN task instance (= case execution, instance of CMMN element, queryable via CaseService) reaches state ACTIVE.

Cheers,
Thorben

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@thorben
Thank you for your answer. This is really disturbing…
In my opinion, a clearly missing functionality :frowning:

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