In Tasklist, you can create and select filters. You can use these filters to create lists of tasks, sorted by specified criteria. To create a filter, select Create a Filter. You will then see a screen as depicted in the above image. You have several options to configure your filter:

• General - Specify the name and description of the filter as well as assigning a color. Assign a priority to determine the order in which the filters are displayed on the dashboard. You can choose to have the filter automatically refresh the filter results by selecting the checkbox Auto-Refresh.
• Criteria - Specify which tasks will be displayed when selecting the filter. A key and a value must be inserted. There are various keys which can be selected from the categories Process Instance (ID, Business Key), Process Definition (ID, Key, Name), Case Instance (ID, Business Key), Case Definition (ID, Key, Name), Other (Process Instance state, Activity instance ID, Execution ID), User/Group (Assignee, Owner, Candidate User or Group, Involved user, Unassigned, Delegation State), Task (Definition Key, Name, Description, Priority) and Dates (Created date, Due date, Follow up date). Keys marked with a * accept expressions as value.

Filter expressions can be abused to execute arbitrary code when the query is evaluated. It is therefore required that any user authorized to create filters is trusted in this respect. The default behavior of evaluating filter expressions can be deactivated in the process engine configuration. See the section on for details.

Common Filters

In the table below we list some of the more common and useful filters that you can create in Tasklist and how to set them up.