topic Re: REST API additions in Alfresco Archive

REST API additions

jtulley — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:03:49 GMT

Hi all,I'm new to the activiti community. The company I work for intends on making heavy use of Activiti, via the REST api.Previous to using the REST api, we were calling TasksService directly, and doing calls to createTaskQuery. Within that, we were using various task query methods that do not se

Re: REST API additions

gdharley — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:32:40 GMT

Hey Jeff, can't speak to the powers in control of pull requests these days, but the taskCategory API would certainly be useful.
Categories are under utilized within the engine and actually adding Rest API to support them would likely increase their use.

Re: REST API additions

jtulley — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:00:49 GMT

It turns out that category is implemented as of 9/6/2016, and documented in the user guide in git, but not in the user guide that is published to the web.

I added the other things I mentioned in my original message, and the PRs were accepted quite responsively.