Hundereds of tasks? Wow.... what kind of branch is that? First of all, it would be nice if in further posts you also describe what has been proposed and 'shot down'. Saves me an initial post and writing these kinds of second posts. What is a "workflow managers"? A kind of admin? Give him the jBPM console and he can 'cancel' all the tasks he wants and/or reassign to anyone. But before proposing anything else (what might have been shot down), you can always unlock the token if you are fairly sure you are the only one acting on it. Regarding the locking. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4229724#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...