candidateGroup not showing tasks

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uwehale

I'm new to activiti.  Running 5.14 explorer and rest. Using the KIS BPM modeler to design the worklfow.

I'm having a problem with user tasks not showing up for logged in user belonging to a group.

On a user task, I edit the assignments attribute, which brings up the popup.  I select the candidateGroups type and enter systemgroup as the expression.

If I export the mode, the task is defined like this.
<userTask id="test" name="test" activiti:candidateGroups="systemgroup"></userTask>

I'm using a user 'system' logged into explorer.  That user is part of the systemgroup which is of type 'assignment'.

When I create the process instance, the task never shows up in the task list.

If I use the assignee type instead of candidateGroups, the task will show up.
<userTask id="test" name="test" activiti:assignee="system"></userTask>

Does the candidateGroups require a different expression than assignee?  Is there something else I need to configure to get this to work?

Thanks,
Uwe

martin_grofcik

Hi Uwe.

You can have a look on the following test
org.activiti.examples.bpmn.usertask.taskcandidate.TaskCandidateTest#testSingleCandidateGroup in the activiti sources.

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // Task should not yet be assigned to kermit<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; List<Task> tasks = taskService<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .createTaskQuery()<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .taskAssignee(KERMIT)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .list();<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; assertTrue(tasks.isEmpty());<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // The task should be visible in the candidate task list<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tasks = taskService.createTaskQuery().taskCandidateUser(KERMIT).list();<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; assertEquals(1, tasks.size());<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Task task = tasks.get(0);<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; assertEquals("Pay out expenses", task.getName());<br>
Task should be visible in the candidate task list.

Regards
Martin