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Tutorial for Alfresco 4 workflow using Eclipse

sballe — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:00:04 GMT

Hi,I am looking to a tutorial for designing custom workflows for Alfresco 4.I want to learn howto make a simple workflow wich shows how to do basic operations : chaining tasks wich require each one users from different groups.Designing it in eclipse, deploying it to Alfresco 4, debugging it.

Re: Tutorial for Alfresco 4 workflow using Eclipse

sballe — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:17:23 GMT

I have not found the newbie guide to workflow in alfresco but found some start points :

There is some documentation about workflows in Alfresco in the documentation :
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow
I first went over this page directly to http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_with_Activiti because my intent was to use activiti. but it is far too short to be helpfull to a newbie.
Now i see links in the bottom that need reading to get more information (still need to check if relevant in regard to activiti) :
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_Reqs_and_Design
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_on_Share
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Activiti_BPMN_Integration

A blog with approach to workflow in alfresco :
http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/11/19/785
http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2011/04/27/1357

Another speaking of deploying workflow into alfresco 3.4
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963360/add-new-workflow-into-alfresco-share

Some information in Activiti project :
http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html

A course in Alfresco university :
http://university.alfresco.com/training/development/alfresco_workflow.html
but seems not to cover activiti new model but previous jBPM model

Re: Tutorial for Alfresco 4 workflow using Eclipse

kriton — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:06:11 GMT

I found the activiti user guide that you linked really helpful. I got started with this really fast. Basically if you follow the steps listed here http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#activitiDesigner you should be ok I believe. Then if you have any specific question, bring them here

Re: Tutorial for Alfresco 4 workflow using Eclipse

sballe — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:36:57 GMT

Hi,
thanks yes, I read this one also. It explains well how to make and activiti workflow. It would need a addendum to give guidelines to alfresco embedded version.

Now I am at a point that I took the activiti samples from alfresco, changed the basic review workflow to add a task and I want to deploy it to Alfresco.

I found by chance on the web that there is a undocumented url that allow to deploy workflows

localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp ‍

on command

deploy activiti /alfresco/workflow/sbcs/BugTrack.bpmn20.xml‍

It deploys
I could start a workflow on it.
it fails to continue at the custom task.
seems debugging time

thanks

Re: Tutorial for Alfresco 4 workflow using Eclipse

kriton — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:15:25 GMT

Does the workflow console actually work for you ?

Because for me it says that is deployed succesfully etc, but it actually does nothing. Deployes jbpm workflows fine, but not activiti ones. I have to do a tomcat restatr for that. quite annoying.

Re: Tutorial for Alfresco 4 workflow using Eclipse

johnpelquingua — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:56:52 GMT

Thanks Guys I needed all the links for me to get started on workflows!

Helps me a ton!

If I have any questions I'll just post it right here.

Cheers~
JP