What happens here is that in the start task you have a swimelane defined. I think what happens is that the swimlane get's overridden with the actor that started the process. Probably if you leave out the swimlane in the start-task it will work. Not sure if it is a bug or works as designed. You can then debate the (non)sense of this design, but that is another issue View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4039231#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...