How to get service task status via TaskService?

[jonathan.chen.]

I have a workflow that has a User Task that transitions to a Service Task, which I'm coding as asynchronous as it potentially can be a long running process. What is confusing me is that when I complete the User Task and check the status by doing taskService.getTasksByStatusByProcessInstanceId(id, [Status.Ready, Status.Completed], "en-US"), I get back the task but taskSummary.getName() still returns the User Task's name. Is there a way to make it get the Service Task name? I have confirmed that the Service Task is in fact running but still returns the User Task name.

Or, better yet, is there a better way to get the current "state" of a particular workflow no matter the type of task it is currently on?

Thanks for any help.

[swiderski.maciej]

service tasks are not stored in taskService so when using taskService to find what tasks are associated with given process instance it will give you only user tasks and not service tasks (or any other type of tasks).

HTH

[jonathan.chen.]

Hi Maciej,

Thanks for the response. That makes sense. Then is there any way to see that a process is still working in a Service Task? I'm using jBPM as a "wizard" workflow, so it would be useful to provide feedback when the "user" tries to progress a task and finds no tasks in the queue because the work item is still being processed by the Service Task.

Thanks for any help.