Yes, it is understandable what you want to achieve, process wise. What I still do not understand is why you try to implement it by run-time modifying of the processdefinition. Several things: 1: processinstance.suspend is to realy halt the process exectution, not for using it as a kind of waitstate 2: Yes 3: Correct Questions: - If you do not want the 'next' task to show up directly, when do you want it to show up and is there any trigger for it - what if the info entered for it is still not correct? - Why not just use a jsf validator on the input field that requires the entry to be > 4 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047059#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...