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Human Task

"type" : "HUMAN"

Introduction​

The human task is used when the workflow needs to be paused for an external signal by a human to continue.

Use Cases​

HUMAN is used when the workflow needs to wait and pause for human intervention (like manual approval) or an event coming from an external source such as Kafka, SQS or Conductor's internal queueing mechanism.

Some use cases where the Human task is used:

  1. To add a human approval task. When the task is approved/rejected by HUMAN task is updated using POST /tasks API to completion.

Here's a sample API call:

curl -X POST "https://play.orkes.io/api/tasks" \
-H  "accept: text/plain" \
-H  "X-Authorization: <JWT Token>" \
-H  "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"workflowInstanceId":"180f5ea5-f946-11ec-bbb8-ae81f2ae657a","taskId":"75f51499-f948-11ec-bbb8-ae81f2ae657a","outputData": {"outputdata":"yummy"},"status":"COMPLETED"}'

Configuration​

  • taskType: HUMAN
  • There are no other configurations required