For a role X make sure that the user that you have added must have an user role. So you need to do two things 1) All user should have X role. 2) Additionally all user should have user role. Therefore all user_id must corresponds to a group_id(that you have created in JBPM_ID_GROUP table) and additionally a group_id(corresponds to user View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4160810#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...