topic [Solved] Workflows not available in Alfresco Archive

[Solved] Workflows not available

nsomaru — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:04:53 GMT

Greetings Alfrescians,When selecting 'Start Workflow' in the Alfresco Share interface, the wizard interface starts, however, the 'Please select a workflow' drop-down box is empty. Any ideas?The associated entry in alfresco.log 'seems' to be:11:31:38,079 ERROR [org.springframework.extensions.webscrip

Re: [Solved] Workflows not available

mikeh — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:22:02 GMT

Looks like you've installed a module (WCM Quickstart perhaps?) and then removed it later on. You can use the workflow admin console* to remove those workflow definitions causing problems, or just add the module back in.

* /alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Solved] Workflows not available

nsomaru — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:39:38 GMT

Solution was:

Reinstalled with all available options (3.4c).

Basically comes down to MH's solution, i.e., replace missing modules.

Nikhil

Re: [Solved] Workflows not available

womer — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:52:05 GMT

This sounds simple enough, but it's not so obvious on *how* exactly.

I'm getting the same error:
Namespace prefix wswf is not mapped to a namespace URI

And yes.. I deployed the Web Quick Start, then removed it as I never could get it to work correctly. Since I was just testing with it… not something the users requested, I took it back out. Better for it not to be there at all, instead of there and not useful.

I've poked around the workflow admin screen a bit and I am unable to figure out how to remove anything based on this information.

Any hints to share on how to do this?

Thanks,
Scott

Looks like you've installed a module (WCM Quickstart perhaps?) and then removed it later on. You can use the workflow admin console* to remove those workflow definitions causing problems, or just add the module back in.

* /alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Solved] Workflows not available

mpeters — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:39:44 GMT

Hi,

we have the same problem after upgrading Alfresco to a newer version without reinstalling WQS. I want to handle the problem with the workflow admin console (which is absolutely new to me), but even running the command "show workflows all" raises the error "org.alfresco.service.namespace.NamespaceException: Namespace prefix wswf is not mapped to a namespace URI".

So how could I get rid of the unwanted workflows?

Regards
Markus

Re: [Solved] Workflows not available

mikeh — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:12:32 GMT

You'll need to boot with the module installed; then use the workflow console to remove those workflows; then you can shutdown and deploy a "clean" war file.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: [Solved] Workflows not available

jpotts — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 02:28:35 GMT

I know this is an old thread but this bug bit me recently. I wasn't looking forward to multiple shutdowns and a Web Quick Start AMP reinstall to fix it. Fortunately, it's much easier to correct. You can do it without a restart.

The issue is documented in <a href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-11033">Jira ALF-11033</a> so I'll post the fix steps there so it is in one place.

Jeff