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fernandob9308
December 15, 2023
Question

Error when assigning a task, if there is at least one inactive user

  • December 15, 2023
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Hello all,

I hope you can help me.

We are regularly facing an issue with the assignment of a tasks within a process model. This happens when the process starts and, at that moment , at least one of the assigned users has its Appian account deactivated.

 A real example:

Process Instance started the 26/11/2023.

The process is “stuck” at a task.

 That task is assigned to the users within the process variable “assignedUsers”:

 This variable had two values (usernames).

 One of the two users was not active by that time (26/11/2023), since it was deactivated the 25th of october 2023 and created again the 13th of December 2023.

 This lead to a problem, because the 1st instance of the process had no assignee. We had to run again the task, and only after we manually start it, it would have the valid assignees:

 Is this a known issue by Appian?

We face it a lot. This is not really convenient

1 reply

stefanhelzle0001
December 15, 2023

A best practice is to use groups for assignment.

Then I design my tasks in a way that it can be either completed within a very short period, or the user decides to turn it into a follow-up that is persisted to the database.