topic Re: Private Document in Alfresco Archive

Private Document

messmeister — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:17:19 GMT

Hello,I'm looking for a solution for the following problemAlfresco Activiti Suite 1.4)During my workflow I collect data from several people (employees) using many user tasks and different forms. Now at the end I create a pdf document using the "Generate document task". After that, a "User task" di

Re: Private Document

jbarrez — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 09:13:50 GMT

I don't think that is currently possible, as indeed the document would be visible to all involved.
It's something we heard before (more ways to set permissions on tasks/process instances), and on our backlog, I'll bring it up again for discussion.

Re: Private Document

messmeister — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:02:43 GMT

Thank you very much!
In the meantime, how can I delete a document from the process? As a workaround I’m thinking of publishing the generated document to alfresco and then remove it from the workflow. I guess I'll need a script task for that? How to get the document and remove it from Java?

Re: Private Document

jbarrez — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:48:13 GMT

For that you'd need a custom Spring bean that has the the ContentStorage service Autowired in it.
If you have the id of the document (its in the database), you can remove it through there.

Re: Private Document

messmeister — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:12:00 GMT

Thank you very much!