I have a situation where we are assigning individual named users to a task from a database by role but the task isn't visible. When I look at the process instance, there is no error showing with the task itself except there are no assigned users showing in the assignment tab. Is there a limit to the number of individual users that can be assigned a task? The users are part of groups in Appian but the task is assigned to individual users instead of the group.
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What happens if you use the exact same rules/logic you're currently using for the assignment, but limit it to only 2 or 3 users? How many users are you attempting to assign at other times? I don't know about any particular hard limit for this, so I think the first thing to do is confirm that your configuration is actually doing what you expect it to do regardless of the size of the user list.
When its only 2 or 3 users the task is accessible. No issues observed. The number of users varies.
The task is accessible, and viewing the assignees in the Process Instance shows what you'd expect?
How about with 5 assignees? or 10? And can you clarify how many assignees you're attempting to use in the cases where you're having issues? It doesn't seem like you mentioned this.
In this particular case, we are assigning 12 users. I was trying to find out if there was a documented maximum number of users. I can figure out what the breaking point is. I just wanted know if that had already been established.
I'll admit it's a bit of an unusual use case to assign a task to loads of users individually, as usually it's easier to handle this either via group-based assignment or DB-assigned "pseudo" tasks.
However I'm unaware of any defined system-side limits to number of assignees on a single task. If you can reproduce a "break" at any specific number of users, I'd suggest you go ahead and open a support case for it, as it may be an actual bug.
I would also be surprised if there is some limitation here as low as say, 10 assignments for the same task. My assumption would be 1000.
In one of my processes for example, is a scenario that assigns multiple of the same tasks directly to a dynamic list of users - where the submitter can pick as many people they want to 'comment' on a submission, used for business development opportunities. How I handle this is by putting the comment task in a sub process, then start the sub process as MNI, one per assignee, set to not move on until all tasks have been completed. There is also a time constraint of a number of hours before an exception fires that ends any remaining tasks.
The sub process method allows you to perform any other processing around their tasks, and is also easier on your engines in the case of many tasks at once. With this setup, the limit would be 1000 tasks.
The design of Appian processes and management of tasks is much simpler if you do by group, even if only temporary. So, I would honestly not be surprised that there is a low limitation to individual users.