We succeeded in using the description as the task name (so in the tasklists, we use the description instead of the name), but in another view we need to show the active activities in a proces, we callexecution.findActiveActivityNames() and get (of course) the names which are again the id's so not reallly meaningfull for the end user. If we could call getActiveActivities() (instead of the names), maybe it would solve our issue, but I'm sure there are other places where we'll have other problems with this workaround... Extending with an extra field seems to have such a big impact for just creating a unique id... Shame they didn't add it to the design. Wkr, Sofie View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4254424#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...