Thank you for the hint! Process-Start-Event works fine. Anyway, there seems to be no elegant way to skip the start-state except the programmatically way that was mentioned by vtysh. And since there is no role assignment possible in start-state, every workflow has to be signalled by initiator. (Would be nice if there were a few more possibilites to use the start-state than now) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062430#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...