VBCS & Processes: using ExternalUIUrl to use a VBCS Flow as Task UI (questions regarding task API ve

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VBCS & Processes: showcase of using ExternalUIUrl to use a VBCS Flow as Task UI (and a question regarding Task API Version)

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Dear all,

In combination with the Process Cloud Service (PCS) there is a possibility in a Human Task to specify an ExternalUIUrl. This URL can point towards a VBCS screen. When using the parameters, you can input all query parameters needed for using a custom VBCS UI inside the PCS tasks. This is a really nice feature as you can use the out-of-the-box task list and a custom task list at the same time.

I have two problems however which I hope there are answers for. First when trying to build a custom task list in VBCS there is a standard implementation of Task, however, this Task does NOT have a lot of the fields that are provided by the task API. So at this moment I am forced to use a service connection towards (probably the same) task API: