Imagine a process with a single node that transitions back into itself. Initially you want it assigned to a group so someone in that group can claim it (pull). When someone claims it in the UI you will reassign it to that individual outside of the process e.g. with calls to jbpm like getTaskForPooled ... taskInstance.setActorId (sorry cant remember the exact names of the API calls) That task will now be assigned to the individual. The problem is that once a transition is signalled in that task node the new task created will no longer be owned by that individual. Hence the need for a node to be assigned to a group initially and then assigned to "previous" afer that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162510#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...