Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
When you invoke a specific task operation on a particular task instance, you can change
the internal status on said task. If you call an invalid operation for the current state of the
task, the Human task component will throw an exception.
Usually, when our business process creates a User task, it will be set up at the
Created
state. If the task has no direct assignment (that is, the process or the task definition doesn't
contain information about who is in charge of it), the task will be placed at the
Ready
state until someone can claim it.
A task in the
Ready
state still needs a potential owner of the task to claim it. Potential
owners can both claim it into the
Reserved
state and release it back into the
Ready
state.
At this point, the task will be ready and waiting for a user assignment.
