topic Re: Old tasks and workflows in Alfresco Archive

Old tasks and workflows

buurd — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:35:33 GMT

Hi!Could anyone please explain how to access data about old workflows. For example, * list tasks performed in the context of an workflow-instance. * list all workflows of a workflowdefinition that has ended in january. I can't find any documentation about how to access the history of a workflow. I

Re: Old tasks and workflows

mrogers — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:49:52 GMT

It doesn't exist.

Re: Old tasks and workflows

mrogers — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:51:46 GMT

It doesn't exist, there is no workflow history.

You could however implement your own.

Re: Old tasks and workflows

buurd — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:50:06 GMT

Thanks for the answer.

Could you provide me with some idea about how to implement the workflow-history (what api for example).

Thanks in advance
Roland

Re: Old tasks and workflows

invictus9 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:21:15 GMT

I believe that mrogers means that you can create your logging of the actions of a work flow. If you log the work flow ID & other parameters, you would then be able to display the work flow history in a way that works for you.

Re: Old tasks and workflows

buurd — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:37:17 GMT

Ok, so I need to write loggingactions for every step in the workflow… really there must be a better way. I know the data is in alfresco already, atleast the standard-gui has access to it somehow.

In the gui I can:
get "tasks done" for a user, so the old-tasks are saved.
get a list of tasks that have been performed before the current, so the context of a workflow are saved.

So the limitation must be in the javascript-api, right? I really don't think that I (or anyone else) should store this information a second time in a handrolled logger, right?

I guess that I have to go Java? Suggestions about where to start?

Re: Old tasks and workflows

mrogers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:09:48 GMT

If you still have workflow instance in an End state then you can still query and display properties. That's what the "tasks done" is doing.

However if a workflow instance no longer exists because its been cancelled or finished then there's nothing to query. That's what I meant by there's no workflow history.