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set user group on an advanced workflow

frizzello — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:36:45 GMT

Hi,My boss asked me to customize reviewpooled advanced workflow(review_pooled_processdefinition.xml) to have already a selected group on Users and Roles list instead of selecting one, is it possible?Thank you, Francesco

Re: set user group on an advanced workflow

jpotts — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:18:55 GMT

Yes, please read the Alfresco Workflow tutorial <a href="http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-workflow/advanced-workflow-article.pdf">here</a>.

Jeff

Re: set user group on an advanced workflow

frizzello — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:56:00 GMT

Thank u for your answer,

I have tried to change in review_pooled_processdefinition.xml

<swimlane name="reviewer">
        <assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment">
                <pooledactors>#{bpm_groupAssignee}</pooledactors>
        </assignment>
    </swimlane>

in

<swimlane name="reviewer">
        <assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment">
              <pooledactors>#{people.getGroup('GROUP_PubblicatoriOsservatorio')}</pooledactors>
        </assignment>
    </swimlane>

but in review pooled workflow is mandatory to pick a user with a sort of a:genericPicker, can i force that to become assigned to a particular existring group? Which file have i to change too?

thanks a lot

Re: set user group on an advanced workflow

jpotts — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:37:00 GMT

If you read the tutorial, you'll find out that there is a workflow model which defines the metadata for a process and a UI configuration file that defines how those fields are rendered to the end-user. The out-of-the-box UI config file for this particular piece is web-client-config-properties.xml and in it you'll see that bpm:startTask is configured to show the assignee field:


   <config evaluator="node-type" condition="bpm:startTask" replace="true">
      <property-sheet>
         <separator name="sep1" display-label-id="general" component-generator="HeaderSeparatorGenerator" />
         <show-property name="bpm:workflowDescription" component-generator="TextAreaGenerator" />
         <show-property name="bpm:workflowPriority" />
         <show-property name="bpm:workflowDueDate" />
         <separator name="sep2" display-label-id="users_and_roles" component-generator="HeaderSeparatorGenerator" />
         <show-association name="bpm:assignee" />
      </property-sheet>
   </config>
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Now, if you look at the tutorial source code, you'll see the custom web client configuration file, web-client-config-custom.xml. The workflow in that case uses a type called scwf:submitReviewTask and it is configured to NOT show the assignee field:


    <config evaluator="node-type" condition="scwf:submitReviewTask" replace="true">
        <property-sheet>
            <separator name="sep1" display-label-id="general" component-generator="HeaderSeparatorGenerator" />
            <show-property name="bpm:workflowDescription" component-generator="TextAreaGenerator" />
        </property-sheet>
    </config>
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So your best bet is to essentially copy the out-of-the-box workflow into your own custom extension and then modify the UI config XML to not show the assignee. Then you can set it in your process.

Jeff

Re: set user group on an advanced workflow

frizzello — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:05:36 GMT

I wrote a wrong name for my group, now it works

Thank you