topic Re: Unable to use Activiti template for new process in Alfresco Archive

Unable to use Activiti template for new process

mwelter — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:03:56 GMT

Good morning all,I've noticed a few problems with using Activiti designer. I'm using Eclipse Indigo & installed JDK 1.8.0_25 on a Windows 7 laptop. I am creating a new workflow process & would like to use one of the default workflows as a starting point. I created a new Kickstart Project

Re: Unable to use Activiti template for new process

mwelter — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:38:54 GMT

I have also noticed some other anomalies…… I have used a dropdown list control in one of my forms, but it doesn't show as a dropdown field once I have imported it into Alfresco. I opened up the XML file to search for the values that I added to this field & I can't see any of them in the file - this would suggest that it isn't exporting the XML file correctly. I can see the field name in the "LeaveProcessing-model.xml" file with the following XML code. But it appears to be of <type>d:text</type>…. Does this mean it is being exported as a plain text field ?

-<aspect name="leaveprocessing:typeofleave"> -<properties> -<property name="leaveprocessing:typeofleave"> <type>d:text</type> <protected>false</protected> <mandatory>true</mandatory> <multiple>false</multiple> </property> </properties> </aspect>

Re: Unable to use Activiti template for new process

jbarrez — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:02:28 GMT

Any reason why using Indigo? Luna is already out now … Indigo is getting quite old.

Regarding your other question, I'm not sure. It has been a long while since I looked into that code….
It should have the dropdown values in the content model to work correctly.

Re: Unable to use Activiti template for new process

mwelter — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:46:24 GMT

Hi Joram,

The Activiti 5.16.4 user guide specifies either Indigo or Juno & I've tried both (http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#eclipseDesignerInstallation)

Re: Unable to use Activiti template for new process

mwelter — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 06:36:21 GMT

Hi Joram,

I've also noticed the following error on startup from Eclipse:

Warnings while parsing the commands from the 'org.eclipse.ui.commands' and 'org.eclipse.ui.actionDefinitions' extension points.
Commands should really have a category: plug-in='org.activiti.designer.kickstart.eclipse', id='org.activiti.designer.kickstart.command.refreshCmisNavigator', categoryId='org.activiti.designer.kickstart.eclipse.categor'

Re: Unable to use Activiti template for new process

trademak — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:09:49 GMT

Hi,

For Kickstart choosing an initial template from the "New process" wizard is not supported.
We should obviously handle this in a more user friendly way.
The errors you mention are warnings which you can ignore.

Best regards,