topic Re: Workflow JavaScript API Examples in Alfresco Archive

Workflow JavaScript API Examples

rdifrango — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:02:47 GMT

Are there any example of using the Workflow JavaScript API for things like:Getting a list of the tasks assigned to a particular userAllowing a particular user to submit their tasks via the standard WCM process.Approve/Reject actions?I am currently evaluating the 3.0 series so I was using the followi

Re: Workflow JavaScript API Examples

stevereiner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:39:18 GMT

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/ in the XML Data WebScripts webscripts-only.zip download has some workflow/task javascript webscripts in integratedsemantics/tasks/*.*
endTask (approve/reject), startWorkflow, taskAttachments, taskList (gets list of tasks for current user), taskTransitions

there are some wcm specific JavaScript webscripts in integratedsemantics/wcm/*.*, (for wcm/avm folderlist, tree, copy, move, list avm stores) and some of the other webscripts work in avm/wcm "mode" based on the arguments passed (upload, createspace, delete)
Note: More wcm apis need to be added to the alfresco Javascript api. I did see something in the wiki where Peter Monks was working on this.

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Re: Workflow JavaScript API Examples

rdifrango — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:18:09 GMT

Steve,

That is a great start. And I can nearly use this as is. The only catch I have is, our user will not be directly logged in because they are coming from a portal. And when I looked at the code it is nearly magic because there is no JS file that backs it. So it is unclear to me how the task lists gets populated on the backend.

Thanks!

Ron

Re: Workflow JavaScript API Examples

rdifrango — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:50:22 GMT

Steve,

Just to give you a little more color, we already have an impersonate service that we use in all of our WebScripts. So for all of the calls, we have an additional parameter of the user and the first thing [and last thing] we do is impersonate. I looked over the template and it looks like you just do a workflow.assignedTasks I am presuming that when you login, the workflow object automatically gets all its tasks. Now the question is, if I add a JS file that does the impersonate will the assigned tasks automatically appear.

Thanks,

Ron

Re: Workflow JavaScript API Examples

rdifrango — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:42:51 GMT

Steve,

It got this working! All my java script now does is the impersonation and deletegates to the templates and everything is present.

Ron