What might help you in this case is to assign a task to a group, then only assign to the actor when they are ready to work the task. J View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065931#4065931 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4065931