Tasks can have actions associated with them. There are 4 standard event types defined for tasks: task-create, task-assign, task-start and task-end.

task-create is fired when a task instance is created.

task-assign is fired when a task instance is being assigned. Note that in actions that are executed on this event, you can access the previous actor with executionContext.getTaskInstance().getPreviousActorId();

task-start is fired when TaskInstance.start() is called. This can be used to indicate that the user is actually starting to work on this task instance. Starting a task is optional.

task-end is fired when TaskInstance.end(...) is called. This marks the completion of the task. If the task is related to a process execution, this call might trigger the resuming of the process execution.

Since tasks can have events and actions associated with them, also exception handlers can be specified on a task. For more information about exception handling, see the section called “Exception handling”.