topic Re: Overriding Workflow Descriptions (messages) in Alfresco Archive

Overriding Workflow Descriptions (messages)

chrisokelly — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:15:51 GMT

Hi guys,Following a few of the topics on this forum, I've tried to override some of the descriptions of the OOTB workflows in Alfresco (specifically in the share client). Essentially my manager has advised me that 99.9% of employees have no idea (or care) what the activiti engine is/does, and having

Re: Overriding Workflow Descriptions (messages)

arnoldschrijve1 — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:05:55 GMT

Workflows have their own resource bundle(s). They are set by the WorkflowDeployer when Alfresco is bootstrapping.
You can see the current configuration by looking in: webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/bootstrap-context.xml and looking for bean with id="workflowBootstrap".

As you can see the full list of Activiti and jBPM workflow definitions is defined, and they are all connected with the workflowModel.xml and workflow-message.properties (among others).

You can create your own bean in alfresco extension directory, and refer to your own message bundle for both custom and the standard workflow definitions, and you can effectively override the individual labels that are defined in workflow-messages.properties (you could also completely override the full workflow-message.properties file).

In webapp/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/extension/MyActivitiWorkflow.context.xml:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

    <bean id="MyActivitiWorkflow_workflowModel_workflowBootstrap" parent="workflowDeployer">
        <property name="workflowDefinitions">
            <list>
                <props>
                    <prop key="engineId">activiti</prop>
                    <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/workflows/MyActivitiWorkflow.bpmn20.xml</prop>
                    <prop key="mimetype">text/xml</prop>
                    
                    <!– Should normally only be set to true during workflow development. –>
                    <prop key="redeploy">false</prop>
                </props>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="models">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/workflows/MyActivitiWorkflow.model.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="labels">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/workflows/MyActivitiWorkflow</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

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Create the model and MyActivitiWorkflow.properties file in the extension/workflows dir and restart Alfresco. Your workflow title and description labels should be used.

Hope this helps.

Re: Overriding Workflow Descriptions (messages)

chrisokelly — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 06:40:32 GMT

Thanks, this worked fine, I think the difference was the bean parent and class for my override, I was using the same I had used for webscripts.

Re: Overriding Workflow Descriptions (messages)

douglascrp — Thu, 22 May 2014 01:29:48 GMT

Your tip worked.

As what I wanted to change was only the message properties files, then my bean ended simpler than yours.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
 
    <bean id="MyActivitiWorkflow_workflowModel_workflowBootstrap" parent="workflowDeployer">
        <property name="labels">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/workflows/MyActivitiWorkflow</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>
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Thank you for sharing it.