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Creating a Custom Tasklist for Camunda 8 – Complete Guide (Architecture, APIs, and Best Practices) Camunda 8 provides a Tasklist by default , but in many real-world projects (banking, insurance, ERP, SaaS), companies need a fully customized Tasklist interface . With Camunda 8, this approach is not a workaround , but a recommended and modern architecture that is perfectly aligned with the cloud and microservices. This guide explains: ✔ Why create a custom ✔ Tasklist The Camunda 8 architecture for Human Tasks ✔ The APIs used ✔ The life cycle of a human ✔ task Form management ✔ Best practices and mistakes to avoid ⭐ 1. Why create a custom Tasklist with Camunda 8? You should create a Custom Tasklist UI if you need: ✔ Branding (logo, colors, corporate UX) ✔ Integration into an existing portal (CRM, ERP, HR, Banking) ✔ Dashboards by role (agent, manager, supervisor) ✔ Modern UI (React / Angular / Vue) ✔ Mobile experience / responsive ✔ SSO (Keycloak, Azure AD, Okta) ✔ A...

In Camunda 8 , the workflow engine never directly executes the business logic . All execution is done outside the engine , asynchronously and event driven . To do this, Camunda 8 offers two main mechanisms : 1️⃣ Camunda 8 Connectors (out-of-the-box integrations, low-code) 2️⃣ Camunda 8 Job Workers (custom workers, full code) Both are based on the Zeebe jobs mechanism , but their uses are very different. ⭐ 1. Overview – Camunda 8 Execution Model Camunda 8 is: ✔ Cloud-native ✔ Distributed ✔ 100% Asynchronous ✔ Event-driven 👉 The orchestration-only 👉 engine All logic is executed by external executors ➡️ Connectors and Workers are both: External Scalables Decoupled from the engine Resilient ⭐ 2. What is a Camunda 8 Connector? Connectors are ready-to-use integration components , provided by Camunda. They allow a BPMN process to be connected to external systems without writing code . 🔹 Key features ✔ Low-code / no-code ✔ Configuration via Web Mod...