topic TimerStartEvent - How to set an Initiator in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286305#M239435 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm new to Alfresco and Activiti and after some digging was finally able to create, deploy and redeploy advanced custom workflows created with Activiti designer plug in for eclipse. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately I had problems working with "TimerStartEvent". The TimerEventDefiniton worked as expected, and all my workflows were created "on time". My workflow, however, had incomplete properties, and "initiator" was missing. As a consequence, the tasks won't show in MyTasks (error in JavaScript) and tasks cannot be ended (error in log).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>From what I could figure, If I could set the initiator of the workflow, everything would work as expected. Please notice that I tried setting activiti:initiator on StartEvent without success.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any advice would be appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco version is 4.2.b (since 4.2.c is giving me errors when using custom workflows)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>fcteste1.bpmn</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR />&lt;definitions xmlns="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL</A>" xmlns:xsi="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A>" xmlns:activiti="<A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn</A>" xmlns:bpmndi="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI</A>" xmlns:omgdc="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC</A>" xmlns:omgdi="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI</A>" typeLanguage="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>" expressionLanguage="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath</A>" targetNamespace="<A href="http://www.activiti.org/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.activiti.org/test</A>"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;process id="fcteste1" name="fcteste1" isExecutable="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="timerstartevent1" name="Timer start" activiti:initiator="bruno"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;timerEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;timeCycle&gt;R5/PT1M&lt;/timeCycle&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/timerEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="usertask1" name="Timer Task" activiti:assignee="bruno" activiti:candidateUsers="bruno,teste" activiti:formKey="wf:adhocTask"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:taskListener event="create" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.tasklistener.ScriptTaskListener"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="script"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:string&gt;logger.log("Timed task created as expected");&lt;/activiti:string&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:taskListener&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/userTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="timerstartevent1" targetRef="usertask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" sourceRef="usertask1" targetRef="endevent1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNDiagram id="BPMNDiagram_fcteste1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNPlane bpmnElement="fcteste1" id="BPMNPlane_fcteste1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="endevent1" id="BPMNShape_endevent1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="340.0" y="280.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="timerstartevent1" id="BPMNShape_timerstartevent1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="100.0" y="280.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="usertask1" id="BPMNShape_usertask1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="55.0" width="105.0" x="180.0" y="270.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow1" id="BPMNEdge_flow1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="135.0" y="297.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="180.0" y="297.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNEdge&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow2" id="BPMNEdge_flow2"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="285.0" y="297.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="340.0" y="297.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNEdge&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNPlane&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNDiagram&gt;<BR />&lt;/definitions&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Log of error when trying to finish the task:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR /> Mar 05, 2013 2:52:56 PM org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext close<BR />SEVERE: Error while closing command context<BR />org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Exception while invoking TaskListener: 02053124 Mandatory task properties have not been provided! {<A href="http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}package" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}package</A><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Javascript error on MyTasks:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />…<BR />["bpm_status"]),y=z.getData("owner"),v=c(z.getData("description")),l=c(q.initiator.firstName);var <BR />…<BR /><BR />Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'firstName' of null <BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Description of workflow using workflow-console (initiator is null and shouldn't)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />desc workflow activiti$840<BR /> <BR />definition: activiti$fcteste1<BR />id: activiti$840<BR />description: null<BR />active: true<BR />start date: Tue Mar 05 13:25:48 UTC 2013<BR />end date: null<BR />initiator: null<BR />context: null<BR />package: null<BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:03:50 GMT bprado 2013-03-05T15:03:50Z TimerStartEvent - How to set an Initiator https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286305#M239435 Hi all,I'm new to Alfresco and Activiti and after some digging was finally able to create, deploy and redeploy advanced custom workflows created with Activiti designer plug in for eclipse. Unfortunately I had problems working with "TimerStartEvent". The TimerEventDefiniton worked as expected, and al Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:03:50 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286305#M239435 bprado 2013-03-05T15:03:50Z Re: TimerStartEvent - How to set an Initiator https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286306#M239436 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>*bump* Any light at the end of the tunnel?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Maybe I should fill a Jira BUG since the initiator should not be null?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:20:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286306#M239436 bprado 2013-03-07T12:20:06Z Re: TimerStartEvent - How to set an Initiator https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286307#M239437 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This is an interesting scenario, as I imagine the timer start event wasn't taken into direct consideration from the Share side of things. Have you tried setting the wf initiator in the create listener? Or you might try creating an execution start listener or take listener and setting the initiator there.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As for the bpm<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />ackage being required, you can change that in the bpm-model.xml</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:27:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286307#M239437 mstein 2013-03-07T23:27:39Z Re: TimerStartEvent - How to set an Initiator https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286308#M239438 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Actually, I couldn't find any references on how to set the initiator.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:59:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286308#M239438 bprado 2013-03-08T00:59:39Z Re: TimerStartEvent - How to set an Initiator https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286309#M239439 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Any advice on how to set the initiator using JavaScript? </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:23:04 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timerstartevent-how-to-set-an-initiator/m-p/286309#M239439 bprado 2013-03-15T16:23:04Z