Michael Wohlfart [http://community.jboss.org/people/mwohlf] replied to the discussion "Best way to role management.." To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/553429#553429 -------------------------------------------------------------- The identity package in jBPM is very rudimentary and it doesn't look like it fully supports hierachical groups yet. Your best shot might be to bring your own implementation of the IdentityService Interface, you should look at the IdentityServiceImpl.findGroupsByUser() method, right now it doesn't return any "sub-groups" (you called then "functional roles") the databse table for the groups (JBPM4_ID_GROUP) already contains a link to the parent groups... But maybe it's best to work with a "real" identity component instead of using the jBPM tables... -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/553429#553429] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]