This topic applies only to the IBM Business Process Manager Advanced configuration.

Authorization roles for human tasks

Actions that you can take on human tasks depend on your authorization role. This role can be a system-level Java EE role or an instance-based role. Role-based authorization requires that administration and application security is enabled for the application server.

Java EE authorization roles for human tasks
System-level Java EE roles are set up when Human Task Manager is configured.
Instance-based authorization roles for human tasks
A task instance or an escalation instance is not assigned directly to a person, instead it is associated with predefined roles to which people are assigned. Anyone that is assigned to an instance-based role can perform the actions for that role. The association of users to instance-based roles is determined either by people assignment, or as the result of task actions.
Instance-based authorization roles for work baskets and business categories
A work basket instance or business category instance is not assigned directly to a person, instead it is associated with predefined roles to which people are assigned. Anyone that is assigned to an instance-based role can perform the actions for that role. The association of users to instance-based roles is determined by people assignment.
Task kinds and instance-based authorization roles
Instance-based authorization roles are associated with human tasks and escalations when the task is modeled. The task kind determines whether a specific authorization role is available for a task.