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Claim Task (External/All Users)

Used to claim a human task by any user. Use this API to claim a task on behalf of a user, which can be external or internal.

This is the API for applications that are built on top of Conductor to retrieve and act on tasks for users. For example, if user "A" is logged on to the system in application "APP", then "APP" can retrieve the tasks eligible for user "A" to act and can claim a task if user "A" is ready to act on it. "APP" needs to use a credential that is an owner of the tasks that user "A" is expected to work on.

Claiming a task will allocate the task to the selected user and will not allow others to claim until the task is released by the original claimant. If the claimant completes the task, it will complete the corresponding workflow task and will proceed to the next step.

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The invoking user should be a task owner or an ADMIN. The provided userId will be matched if the assignee on the task is of type EXTERNAL_USER, CONDUCTOR_USER or CONDUCTOR_GROUP. If the assignee type is EXTERNAL_GROUP, the system will assume the external system has validated the claim criteria. If the task is assigned using the Free for all policy, any user will be able to retrieve the task. When using application credentials, the application should be the owner of the task in the workflow definition.

Input Payload​

AttributeDescription
taskIdThe taskId of the human task which you want to retrieve.
userIdThe userId of the user claiming this task.

API Endpoint​

POST human/tasks/{taskId}/externalUser/{userId}

Client SDK Methods​

TODO: Coming soon to the SDKs