Answers to: The task was already finished or does not existhttps://answers.axonivy.com/questions/619/the-task-was-already-finished-or-does-not-exist<p>Hi Ivy support team,</p> <p>With the Ivy task, do we have any timeout for that, because in case that: - I do not set the timeout for the task element - And when I open the task, do nothing for 15 minutes, after that I try to finish this task, it has the error like this</p> <p>ch.ivyteam.ivy.request.RequestException: The task with identifier '261' was already finished or does not exist (Session identifier is '7'). at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.AbstractTaskResumerServlet.findTask(AbstractTaskResumerServlet.java:94) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.IvyProcessServlet.processProcessRequest(IvyProcessServlet.java:150) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.IvyProcessServlet.processProcessPostRequest(IvyProcessServlet.java:127) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.IvyProcessServlet.doRespondAsSystem(IvyProcessServlet.java:70) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.AbstractServlet.prepareRespondAsSystem(AbstractServlet.java:266) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.AbstractServlet.access$4(AbstractServlet.java:239) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.AbstractServlet$2.call(AbstractServlet.java:210) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.security.internal.SecurityManager.executeAsSystem(SecurityManager.java:1419) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.AbstractServlet.doService(AbstractServlet.java:204) at ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.AbstractServlet.doPost(AbstractServlet.java:178) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)</p> <p>Do we have any solution for this issue????????</p> <p>Note: when I open the task again, and open the task, it is still exist in task</p>enMon, 14 Apr 2014 14:03:46 -0400Answer by Reto Weisshttps://answers.axonivy.com/questions/619/the-task-was-already-finished-or-does-not-exist/634<p>It seems that the session has timeouted. If the session timeouts all task that the user of the session has worked on are reset. This means they are set back to state SUSPENDED. To prevent this error increase the session timeout time in the file web.xml in the directory /webapps/ivy/WEB-INF. For more information see <a href="http://xpertivy.ch/releases/Xpert.ivy/5.0.latest/documents/ServerGuideHtml/ivy.server.configuration.tomcat.html#ivy.server.configuration.tomcat.web.xml">Server Guide</a>.</p>Reto WeissMon, 14 Apr 2014 14:03:46 -0400https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/619/the-task-was-already-finished-or-does-not-exist/634