topic Re: Show status of workflow steps in Alfresco Archive

Show status of workflow steps

rsingleton — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:32:56 GMT

I'm looking to use alfresco for document review and approval. One of the important things I need is for users to be able to see the status documents are in during movement through a workflow. Is there a way to create workspace that lists all the documents in that workspace along with the current ste

Re: Show status of workflow steps

groberts — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:27:48 GMT

I need to do the same thing. I'll post back here when I've figured it out.

I'll try to extend the Advanced Search to match documents under review. Or maybe I need to write a Dashlet using Freemaker that does the search and renders a summary of results.\

The Enterprise ECM Implementation book is pretty useful.

Re: Show status of workflow steps

groberts — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:36:59 GMT

I found some example Web Scripts. Although they generate html, they also show how to extract tasks and resources from the workflow API. I used these to uild some JSON which is sent to a modified version of docasu.

My Tasks (Office Add-In)
GET /alfresco/service/office/myTasks?p={path}
—
Generate the Office Add-In My Tasks page
—
Authentication:   user
Transaction:   required
Format Style:   any
Default Format:   html
Id:   org/alfresco/office/myTasks.get
Descriptor:   classpath:alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/office/myTasks.get.desc.xml

My Tasks Detail (Office Add-In)
GET /alfresco/service/office/myTasksDetail?t={taskId}
—
Generate the Office Add-In Task Detail page
—
Authentication:   user
Transaction:   required
Format Style:   any
Default Format:   html
Id:   org/alfresco/office/myTasksDetail.get
Descriptor:   classpath:alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/office/myTasksDetail.get.desc.xml

Re: Show status of workflow steps

groberts — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:03:13 GMT

After looking at this again I find that the tasks I get are only those assigned to admin, regardless of who has been authenticated.

I assigned some workflow tasks to several users and to admin and found that those users coudl not see tasks assigned to them, but could see admin's tasks.

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/office/myTasks

Its as if admin is always the authenticated user.

I''ll debug WorkflowManager.java getAssignedTasks().

Mystified.

Re: Show status of workflow steps

groberts — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:46:53 GMT

Solved: I was calling the web script from within docasu and somehow although I thought I had logged in as an ordinary user, the script was being run as though admin had been authenticated.

I found this out by calling the script from a terminal window;

curl -v "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=alan.nichols&pw=xxxxxxx"
..
..
<ticket>TICKET_c3fed7665e3f1fe26ed46fb4611f1a055e2683c9</ticket>
..
..

curl "http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/docasu/workflow/tasks?alf_ticket=TICKET_c3fed7665e3f1fe26ed46fb4611f1a055e2683c9"

Next challenge is to understand why docasu was calling the script as admin.