topic Re: Creating a new WCM workflow in Alfresco Archive

Creating a new WCM workflow

dafyddjames — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:51:49 GMT

Hi,I'm currently using 3.1.2 and I'd like to create a new WCM workflow that allows me to make use of the auto-deploy feature that doesn't seem to appear unless you're using a workflow for submission in your web project. All existing workflows seem to involve review/submission and I don't want that s

Re: Creating a new WCM workflow

romschn — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:40:10 GMT

1. You can put your process definition.xml file under tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/workflow folder.
2. Leave out-of-the-box workflow-context.xml as it is. You do not require to modify it. It contains the out-of-the-bean entries.
3. Create a new custom-workflow-context.xml file in which add entry to register your process definition.xml file as below example.
   <bean id="customWorkflow" parent="workflowDeployer">
        <property name="workflowDefinitions">
            <list>
                <!– Adhoc workflow definition –>
                <props>
                    <prop key="engineId">jbpm</prop>
                    <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/workflow/my_processdefinition.xml</prop>
                    <prop key="mimetype">text/xml</prop>
                    <prop key="redeploy">false</prop>
                </props>
            </list>
        </property>
You may want to take a look at bootstrap-context.xml for more detail in which out-of-the-box workflows are registered.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Re: Creating a new WCM workflow

dafyddjames — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:09:05 GMT

That's great, thanks! I'm now using Alfresco 3.4.0, I hope that your instructions apply to this version too. I'll give them a go ASAP

Re: Creating a new WCM workflow

romschn — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:33:19 GMT

Yes, it applies to version 3.4 as well.