If you wanted to start somewhere for this, I would first understand Hibernate queries. The Task Management Session uses Hibrernate to make this query. So, here is the Hibernate Query they use to get tasks for a given user: | select ti | from org.jbpm.taskmgmt.exe.TaskInstance as ti | where ti.actorId = :actorId | and ti.isOpen = true | See: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/queryhql.html For the hibernate query, see the source from org.jbpm.db.TaskMgmtSession, which calls a query in org/jbpm/db/hibernate.queries.hbm.xml You could get the Hibernate session from jBPM, and then create a Query off of it, making your appropriate order by. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4214320#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...