Comments on: Get your Alfresco ‘flow on

By: Alfresco tutorial: Advanced Workflows using Activiti | ecmarchitect.com

Alfresco tutorial: Advanced Workflows using Activiti | ecmarchitect.com — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:59:39 +0000

[...] 2007, I wrote a tutorial on Alfresco’s advanced workflows which I later used as the basis for the workflow chapter in [...]

By: Francois

Francois — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:52:12 +0000

Trop cool, merci jeff !

By: Monitoring folders with Alfresco workflows | ecmarchitect.com

Monitoring folders with Alfresco workflows | ecmarchitect.com — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:24:55 +0000

[...] once you’ve done it a time or two. If you need a refresher on the details, see “Get your Alfresco ‘flow on“. For the purposes of this discussion, just know that your process definition can have [...]

By: LAx

LAx — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:31:31 +0000

Grateful for the article. Thank you so much. Wondering how to get the swimlanes working. I set up group called “marketing” and added people. End result is you log in as one of the group members and you get “My Tasks To Do… No tasks found.” Also if you could comment on the screen that the initiator sees… how do you limit the options to “Description:” and “Email:”? Advice is much appreciated!

By: Julio B

Julio B — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:54:58 +0000

Great Article!!!… ty very much

By: Phemelo

Phemelo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:31:56 +0000

Hi Jeff iam following the instruction from your book, and keep getting this error: Could not import bootstrap model alfresco/extension/model/scModel.xml but i have checked that my file is correct, i tryed the someco.workflowBootstrap bean id still not working

By: jpotts

jpotts — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:16:42 +0000

Correct, you can launch an advanced workflow from a script using the start-workflow action. As you mentioned, when you take that approach you have to specify all of the workflow parameters and assignees in script.

It sounds like what you want is to be able to configure a rule to launch a workflow, and as part of the rule configuration, you’d like to provide a user interface to set the workflow parameters. This would require you to create a custom action that might extend the start-workflow action. The difference is that you’ll add a handler that provides a UI for setting your workflow properties. The easy, but potentially inflexible, approach would be if you only allowed a certain set of parameters to be set such as the assignee, due date, etc. If you want to do something fancier, like look at the workflow model and figure out how to build the UI based on the parameters that need to be set as part of the action handler, that’s a more complex customization–you’re essentially going to follow the start workflow dialog logic. But if you’re going to keep the config to a static set of parameters, that shouldn’t be a big deal–it’s just like any other action handler.

I agree that it would be cool if this were out-of-the-box.

Jeff

By: jpbarba

jpbarba — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:53 +0000

Hi,
I wouldd like to implement an advanced workflow based on rules. The problem is that only simple workflows are allowed. I have seen that they could be implemented with ‘Ejecute script’ action, but it is not really what I want. There is no wizard to select people, time, etc, so you must wire these parameters in the script (*.js), and that is no so elegant. I hope you would understand the problem. I think this functionality is very useful but I don’t know why it is not implemented.

Greetings.

By: jpotts

jpotts — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:04:30 +0000

Vin,

Tell me what you’re trying to do, what you’ve tried so far, and what resources you’ve look at for help.

Jeff

By: vinu

vinu — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:19:06 +0000

hi iam trying to create a custom task using java api, please any one help me

thanks
vin