pooled actors (which can contain a groupname, groupnames, individual actors etc) are what you have in your identity model from which to select one actor to act upon the task. A swimlane is the bpm concept keeping track of who is selected, so in subsequent tasks in the same swimlane the originally assigned actor is chosen again. Regarding the last question, you have to indeed assign an individual actor when acting upon it, but leave the pooled-actors as they are. That way, you can always reassign back to the pool by making the actor-id null View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165876#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...