topic Re: Workflow not getting deployed in Alfresco Archive

Workflow not getting deployed

oshadha — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:17:31 GMT

Hi all,I'm trying to deploy a workflow as mentioned in the book "Alfresco Cookbook" from PacktPub. But unfortunatly it's not getting deployed. And there's are no errors/exceptions in the logs, everything runs smoothly when restarting the server.filespm_processdefinition.xmlpm_taskModel.xmlpm-workflo

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

jpotts — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:01:45 GMT

You'll need to provide your pm_taskModel.xml. If your repository isn't starting that is where the problem most likely is.

Jeff

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

oshadha — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:24:31 GMT

You'll need to provide your pm_taskModel.xml. If your repository isn't starting that is where the problem most likely is.

Jeff

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Re: Workflow not getting deployed

jpotts — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:15:41 GMT

If the server is coming up okay then your model is most likely fine. All of the files you've provided look good after a cursory glance.

You are running Alfresco 4. Have you enabled jBPM? If you used the installer, it is disabled by default. Check $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties for:
# Determines if the JBPM engine is enabled
system.workflow.engine.jbpm.enabled=true

If the engine is enabled, go to the workflow console:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

Then try to manually deploy your process, like this:
deploy jbpm alfresco alfresco/extension/pm_processdefinition.xml

And see if it is successful or produces any helpful error messages.

Jeff

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

oshadha — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:30:27 GMT

If the server is coming up okay then your model is most likely fine. All of the files you've provided look good after a cursory glance.

You are running Alfresco 4. Have you enabled jBPM? If you used the installer, it is disabled by default. Check $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties for:
# Determines if the JBPM engine is enabled
system.workflow.engine.jbpm.enabled=true

If the engine is enabled, go to the workflow console:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

Then try to manually deploy your process, like this:
deploy jbpm alfresco alfresco/extension/pm_processdefinition.xml

And see if it is successful or produces any helpful error messages.

Jeff

JBPM engine is enabled and here's the workflow console output result. Still it's not getting deployed.

   
Last command: deploy jbpm alfresco/extension/pm_processdefinition.xml
Duration: 82ms
—–

[WARNING] swimlane 'initiator' does not have an assignment
deployed definition id: jbpm$87 , name: jbpm$iabookwf:pmprocess , title: Project Management , version: 64
definition: jbpm$87 , name: Project Management , version: 64
workflow: None
path: None
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Re: Workflow not getting deployed

jpotts — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:01:37 GMT

That looks like a clean deploy to me. Can you do a "show definitions all" and see if your workflow is listed?

Can you remind me what makes you think the workflow is not being deployed?

Jeff

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

oshadha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:14:10 GMT

That looks like a clean deploy to me. Can you do a "show definitions all" and see if your workflow is listed?

Can you remind me what makes you think the workflow is not being deployed?

Jeff

Last command: show definitions all
Duration: 10ms
—–

id: activiti$activitiAdhoc:1:4 , name: activiti$activitiAdhoc , title: Adhoc Workflow , version: 1
id: activiti$activitiInvitationModerated:1:23 , name: activiti$activitiInvitationModerated , title: Invitation - Moderated , version: 1
id: activiti$activitiInvitationNominated:1:26 , name: activiti$activitiInvitationNominated , title: Site Invitation - Nominated , version: 1
id: activiti$activitiParallelGroupReview:1:20 , name: activiti$activitiParallelGroupReview , title: Group Review And Approve , version: 1
id: activiti$activitiParallelReview:1:16 , name: activiti$activitiParallelReview , title: Parallel Review And Approve , version: 1
id: activiti$activitiReview:1:8 , name: activiti$activitiReview , title: Review And Approve , version: 1
id: activiti$activitiReviewPooled:1:12 , name: activiti$activitiReviewPooled , title: Pooled Review And Approve , version: 1
id: activiti$publishWebContent:1:29 , name: activiti$publishWebContent , title: Publish Web Content Activiti Process , version: 1‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I dont have a specific idea of why the workflow is not getting deployed. It maybe a alfresco version issue, or an incompetible JBPM version, or elase an issue in JBPM engine itself. I will try this in a different alfresco instance and let you know the results.

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

oshadha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:58:47 GMT

Deployed on a different alfresco instance on a differant location. Still no luck the workflow is not getting deployed and there are no errors on the logs.

Thanks.

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

jpotts — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:53:29 GMT

Try deploying one of the out-of-the-box jBPM workflows. For example, do:
deploy jbpm alfresco/workflow/adhoc_processdefinition.xml

Jeff

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

marco_altieri — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:41:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same problem on Alfresco 4.1.2.
The deployment of the workflow succeeds, but I can see only activiti workflows both in alfresco and share.
I have also tried to deploy an ootb workflow as Jeff suggested.

The workflow definitions are there because I can execute the command:

use definition jbpm$2455

I know the id of the workflow definition because I have the same repository on version 3.4.6 where the workflows work.

I thought it was a problem with the porting of the repository from version 3.4.6 to version 4.1.2, but I have also tried on a clean repository with the same results.

Is this a known bug?

Regards,
Marco

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

marco_altieri — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:20:15 GMT

My fault…
It was necessary to set also the property:

system.workflow.engine.jbpm.definitions.visible=true

Regards,
Marco

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

mwarme — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:24:02 GMT

I'm attempting to deploy a custom workflow to alfresco 4.2.c. I have the following files stored in /alfresco 4.2.c/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/workflow/contractor_process/: contractor_processmodel.xml, contractor_processdefinition.xml. In general terms, I need to deploy a workflow that allows a user to begin a workflow and assign three users and a document to the workflow. The three chosen users need to sequentially edit the document then pass it down the line. I'm basically brand-new to alfresco and I'm not what you'd call a developer–I'm a discrete math person. I'm almost positive my issues with deploying the workflow stem from incorrectly placing the "spring workflow deployer bean", and I've found exactly zero information anywhere on the forums or tutorials about where to place this snippet of code. Based on all the examples of this bean that i've found, I'm positive I've correctly constructed the code for it, but I have absolutely no idea WHERE or under what folder I need to save this piece of code to manually deploy my workflow.

Re: Workflow not getting deployed

tusharpatel88 — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:42:35 GMT

I have been working on Alfresco 4.2

I have same problem for cookbook workflow example.

system.workflow.engine.jbpm.enabled=true
system.workflow.engine.jbpm.definitions.visible=true

Above two propertiez in alfresco-global.properties solve my problem.

Thanks marco and Jeff.