topic Re: Activiti Attachments/Comments extensions in Alfresco Archive

Activiti Attachments/Comments extensions

xshogun — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:59:25 GMT

I'm trying to store attachments through Activiti engine and was wondering if it's possible to extend the logic to be able to store additional attachment information like the date when the attachment was added. Likewise can the same be done for comments (storing additional fields like comment categor

Re: Activiti Attachments/Comments extensions

martin_grofcik — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:36:11 GMT

Yes you can extend activiti. It is opensource.

Regards
Martin

Re: Activiti Attachments/Comments extensions

xshogun — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:07:45 GMT

I was wondering if there's a mechanism within Activiti (to implement some sort of provider etc) without the need to change Activiti code.

Re: Activiti Attachments/Comments extensions

trademak — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 07:42:31 GMT

We have an event handler mechanism since Activiti 5.15 that provides you an event when a comment or attachment is created:

http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#eventDispatcher

Implementing an event listener will provide a possibility to store additional information in non-Activiti table if needed.

Best regards,