Delay in User Task Availability After Process Start – Camunda 8 Spring Boot SDK 8.7

[nathan.loding]

Hi @abahaai, welcome to the forums. This is expected due to the asynchronous and eventually consistent design of Zeebe. You can read more about it:

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There's a delay after a process instance is started

I believe there remains some misunderstanding here. Camunda is a process orchestration platform, powered by a distributed, asynchronous workflow engine (Zeebe). It is not a routing engine. Camunda is designed and optimized for complex and high-volume process automations across multiple internal and external services. To use @MagzhanUnited’s process as an example, that process is far more efficient as a switch statement in your own application. (This is an area where our documentation could defi…

The best fix is to use execution listeners, which are essentially job workers that get triggered at the start or end of any BPMN symbol. However, user task listeners aren’t available in 8.7 (they will be available in 8.8). I believe you can currently use the start execution listener, but you can’t listen to other user task lifecycle events such as assignment.