[sfmskywalker]

Purpose

This is the first Phase 2 item of the BPMN epic (#8898): UserTask outcomes. The epic's "Done when" scenario completes a user task with "approve" and expects the process to take the path for that choice. Today the choice never reaches BPMN routing.

Scope

• New feature

Description

Problem

UserTask completed with no outcome. The action key went only into its Result. A BPMN userTask bound to UserTask therefore reported no outcome names, so a sequence flow conditional on Approve (vw:conditionOutcome) never matched. A task whose outgoing flows were all conditional faulted the scope with bpmn.flow.none-taken.

Solution

• Outcomes. A completed UserTask reports Done and the action key it was completed with, including the reserved Timeout and Cancelled. An empty key or Done reports just Done.
• BPMN. The BPMN scope already passes an activity's Outcomes to the interpreter, so a task's outgoing flows can now route on the person's choice. No BPMN code changes.
• Flowcharts. A flowchart follows only the connections whose port is among the outcomes. Done is still reported, so existing Done connections are taken as before. UserTask declares no other ports.
• Docs.
  • user-tasks.md describes the outcomes.
  • The BPMN wiki has a new "Routing on what a task's activity reports" section.

Not covered

• Gateways. A gateway after the task still can't see the action: the interpreter routes a gateway on its own conditions only. A gateway expression can read the result with getOutputFrom('<processId>:<bindingRef>', 'Result'), but that is not author-friendly. Better expression access is a follow-up, so the docs say to put outcome conditions on the task's own outgoing flows.
• Flowchart resume in the BPMN runtime test host. A test running UserTask in a flowchart through that host never resumed after the task was completed. The resume is logged, but the bookmark and the activity state stay unchanged. This happens with or without this change, so I left that test out. I'll investigate it separately.

Verification

• dotnet test core/test/integration/Elsa.Bpmn.Interchange.IntegrationTests: 205 passed.
  • A new theory: a userTask whose flows are conditional on Approve and Reject takes the flow for the action it is completed with. Both cases fail without the change.
  • The existing linear user-task test still passes.
• dotnet test core/test/unit/Elsa.UserTasks.UnitTests: 135 passed, including a new test that a completion reports Done and its action (Approve, Timeout, Cancelled, Done, empty, null).
• dotnet build of Elsa.UserTasks on net8.0, net9.0 and net10.0: no errors.

Checklist

• The PR is focused on a single concern
• Commit messages follow the recommended convention
• Tests added or updated (if applicable)
• Documentation updated (if applicable)
• No unrelated cleanup included
• All tests pass

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • BPMN workflows can route directly from a user task based on the action selected to complete it, such as “Approve” or “Reject.” Completed tasks report the “Done” outcome and the selected action. Flowcharts continue through the “Done” connection and connections without a named port.
• Documentation
  • Updated workflow and forms guidance to explain user-task outcomes and action-based routing, including timeout and cancellation outcomes.

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Walkthrough

UserTask completion now reports default outcomes and, when applicable, the action key. BPMN outgoing sequence flows can use the reported outcomes to select a path. Tests and documentation cover outcome behavior and action-based routing.

Changes: UserTask action routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Report UserTask action outcomes core/src/modules/Elsa.UserTasks/Activities/UserTask.cs, core/src/modules/Elsa.Bpmn/Hosting/BpmnScopeHost.cs, core/test/unit/Elsa.UserTasks.UnitTests/UserTaskOutcomeTests.cs, core/docs/user-tasks.md	ResumeAsync completes with default outcomes and adds the action key unless it is null, empty, or a default outcome name. BpmnScopeHost filters null outcome names. Unit tests and user-task documentation cover outcome reporting and flowchart routing.
Route BPMN flows by action core/test/integration/Elsa.Bpmn.Interchange.IntegrationTests/Scenarios/Runtime/BpmnUserTaskTests.cs, core/docs/wiki/bpmn-workflows.md	The integration test checks that Approve runs Ship and Reject runs Notify. The documentation explains routing on task outgoing flows using reported outcomes.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Alice
  participant IUserTaskManager
  participant UserTask
  participant BpmnScopeHost
  participant BPMNOutgoingFlows
  Alice->>IUserTaskManager: Complete waiting task with action key
  IUserTaskManager->>UserTask: Resume task with action key
  UserTask->>BpmnScopeHost: Complete with default and action-key outcomes
  BpmnScopeHost->>BPMNOutgoingFlows: Pass non-null outcome names

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Possibly related issues

• elsa-workflows/elsa-core#8898 — The issue describes completing a user task with an action such as approve to follow a conditioned BPMN path. This change reports the action as an outcome and tests action-based routing.

Possibly related PRs

• elsa-workflows/elsa-core#9047 — This PR enables an unbound BPMN userTask to use the Elsa UserTask activity. That activity's action outcomes provide the routing behavior described here.

Merge Risk: Low · up to c7d84

Action-based flowchart routing needs a test assertion before relying on this coverage. No current routing failure has been established.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 44.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: reporting the action used to complete a UserTask as an outcome.
Description check		The description is complete and covers the purpose, new-feature scope, problem, solution, limitations, verification results, documentation, and checklist. The omitted screenshots section is not applic…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description is complete and covers the purpose, new-feature scope, problem, solution, limitations, verification results, documentation, and checklist. The omitted screenshots section is not applicable because this change does not affect the UI.

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Docstring coverage is 44.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Summary

UserTask reports its completing action alongside its default outcomes, allowing BPMN flows to route on that action.

• Completed user tasks now route workflows by the chosen action.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

core/test/unit/Elsa.UserTasks.UnitTests/UserTaskOutcomeTests.cs: 1

19-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the action-named flowchart edge.

The "Approve" case creates no "Approve" connection. A regression that omits only that edge would pass this test. Add the connection and include it in the expected result for "Approve".

Suggested fix

         var unnamed = new Connection(task, new WriteLine("unnamed"));
         var done = new Connection(new Endpoint(task, "Done"), new Endpoint(new WriteLine("done")));
+        var approve = new Connection(new Endpoint(task, "Approve"), new Endpoint(new WriteLine("approve")));
         var reject = new Connection(new Endpoint(task, "Reject"), new Endpoint(new WriteLine("reject")));
-        ICollection<Connection> connections = [unnamed, done, reject];
+        ICollection<Connection> connections = [unnamed, done, approve, reject];
 
-        Assert.Equal([unnamed, done], connections.OutboundConnections(task, UserTask.OutcomesOf(actionKey)));
+        var expected = actionKey == "Approve" ? new[] { unnamed, done, approve } : new[] { unnamed, done };
+        Assert.Equal(expected, connections.OutboundConnections(task, UserTask.OutcomesOf(actionKey)));

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[sfmskywalker]

[Claude] ubuntu-latest failed, but not because of a test.

• The failure: Elsa.Workflows.ComponentTests passed 228 of 228, then coverlet reported a total line coverage of 20.47%, below the 23% threshold.
• Why it isn't this PR's: in the same project's run on feat(bpmn): accept unbound tasks at import with a placeholder; default userTask to UserTask #9047 (same base, same 228 tests), the total was 35.55%. Comparing the two coverage tables, 24 assemblies this PR doesn't touch dropped to exactly 0%, among them Elsa.Mediator (59.7%), Elsa.Scheduling (51.1%), Elsa.Expressions.JavaScript (46.5%) and Elsa.Testing.Shared.Component (89.8%).
• Conclusion: coverage wasn't collected for those assemblies on this run. The diff here is about 20 lines in UserTask and BpmnScopeHost, which can't account for that. No fix exists to port, so I'm re-running the failed job once.

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