Your missing something - the human task handler is just a 'standard' custom work item handler, it doesn't do anything special that nobody elee can do. What you basically need to do is ensure that your flows are persisted, your work item handler doesn't complete immediately instead it dispatches the job to your external system. When the job comes back (days later) the work item handler is responsible for loading up the workflow again (if it isn't currently loaded) and then carrying on the process with the result.
If you look at the source code for the human task work item handler and search the mailing list archives you can find more information on how exactly to do this - I think the docs give some information as well.
Thomas
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> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your response but the problem is that I want flow to stop at that
> point while I ask question to customer and wait there until question is
> replied by customer. It can take hours/days for customer to come back. With
> custom work item I don't think I would be able to setup flow to stop at that
> point? Or am I missing something?
>
> Cheers
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