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Task-edit web preview

pat9rv3sousa — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:23:00 GMT

I want to implement a preview of the document in the form of the task-edit of the workflows… How can I do this? I try to adapt the document-details.xml and document-details.ftl to workflow-details.xml and workflow-details.ftl but not works. I tried to copy the components that have web-preview of the

Re: Task-edit web preview

afaust — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:20:28 GMT

Hello,

a task / workflow is not a document and cannot be previewed just by copying over the existing web-preview component. Any one task may contain none, one or many individual documents, either directly or within its content structure / folders. The web-preview component is only capable of previewing a single document that is provided at page load time (i.e. via the nodeRef= parameter in the page URL).
In order to preview documents from the task contents, you basically need to create a new preview component / module that you can control from within the task form, i.e. when the user clicks on an action for a specific document in that task. It is not possible just by adapting / copying the existing component.

I once implemented such a feature for a customer and overall it took me (a full time professional) about a weeks worth of work. That was back in Alfresco 3.4 and I don't have access to the source anymore, so can't provide any snippets.

Regards
Axel

Re: Task-edit web preview

pat9rv3sousa — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:51:29 GMT

But in the task-edit I have nodeRef of the document attached to the workflow, and I want to make in a form, a way to preview the document. It's not possible? Like in the document-details. I have nodeRef so , I think it's possible . Or not?

Re: Task-edit web preview

afaust — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:59:39 GMT

In the task-edit you CAN have a nodeRef of the document attached, but you can also have MULTIPLE documents attached or NONE at all. The point is that there is no guaranteed / stable link and as such an external component (that is NOT part of the edit form itself) can't be used to render an attached document.
You can of course use the preview as a component WITHIN the edit form, but this is a more complex to achieve. It is definitely not simple enough to just drop some snippets/ideas here and hope you can take it from there…

Re: Task-edit web preview

pat9rv3sousa — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:28:00 GMT

And how can I achieve this ?

Suppose that workflow has 1 document only, I can't use a preview for this?

Or suppose that I want to put a preview in a page that has only a nodeRef in a link, in a simple page that I create, how can I embbed the preview (not in Aikau page… in a simple page Surf)?