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Getting an exported App into Alfresco Share - any existing tools?

gagravarr — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:52:43 GMT

I've known for some time that it's possible to use the online Alfresco Activiti instance to easily create workflows, then export them as BPMN2.0 files for use elsewhere. We've made use of that a bit for building workflows to use in our on-premise Alfresco install, as the web interface seems to go do

Re: Getting an exported App into Alfresco Share - any existing tools?

jbarrez — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:15:50 GMT

No, afaik, nothing like that exists at the moment, but I assume it would be a helpful thing to have for many people.

Re: Getting an exported App into Alfresco Share - any existing tools?

gagravarr — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:44:38 GMT

So, this turned out to be a tiny bit more work than I'd initially expected it to be….

I do now, however, have a converter written which is able to handle much of the basics. I've been able to drop the output from it into an Alfresco 4.2 instance, have some form fields show up, and the workflow start! More work is needed though.

The code is available at https://github.com/Gagravarr/activiti-enterprise-to-alfresco

Re: Getting an exported App into Alfresco Share - any existing tools?

jbarrez — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:17:07 GMT

Interesting! I already suspected it was not going to be a walk in the park 😉