Persist assignment across user tasks with Camunda 8.6 self-managed

[mjss]

I am using Camunda 8.6, self-managed, deployed via docker-compose.

How can I programmatically get access to the user a task is currently assigned to?

My goal is to be able to assign a task to myself on the Tasklist, and then when subsequent user tasks show up, the task is assigned to me. In other words, I want that initial assignment to persist across multiple user tasks.

[nathan.loding]

Hi @mjss, welcome to the forums! You can use this endpoint to fetch a task:

Get a task | Camunda 8 Docs

That will return the currently assigned user, and you can use that value to update any existing user tasks with this endpoint:

Assign user task | Camunda 8 Docs

It is slightly confusing right now as we continue working to unify all the APIs, but hopefully that makes sense and helps!