Gentlemen Thank you for your replies. Ive been on the SEAM forum trying to resolve other issues, and forgot about this one. i think the group assignment before user is going to be a useable option, the only problem will be the case where a user goes away on holiday and task assignment needs to be moved to another user. PS JBPM is very cool View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066141#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...