topic Custom Workflow in Workdesk in Alfresco Archive

Custom Workflow in Workdesk

mokus16 — Mon, 05 May 2014 15:11:03 GMT

Hi,I’m trying to define a custom WF with its custom task model for the Workdesk environment. I followed the HR Vacation Approval demo, but my process is not working correctly.The initiator starts the WF with the attached document, but when the second user (reviewer) clicks on the Case Management mas

Re: Custom Workflow in Workdesk

deko — Tue, 06 May 2014 11:27:32 GMT

Hi mokus16,

I don´t know the HR vacation approval demo you are talking about, but the error message is clear. The object class D:sldcmwf:contractReviewTask does not exist.

Did you use this class somewhere in your owplugins.xml configurations, especially in the Case Management plugin? I can´t think of any other reason why Share would display the tasks and Workdesk wouldn´t. In fact, both are retreiving the same objects from the Activiti API.

You could also attach your owplugins.xml and your owbootstrap.xml config files if you want me to have a look here.

Best regards,
deko

Re: Custom Workflow in Workdesk

d_evil — Tue, 06 May 2014 11:52:47 GMT

Hi mokus16,

that problem I run into also, the problem is that Workdesk is using the CMIS type definition to get information about the fields in a Workflow Task/Step. Therefore it try to request them from Alfresco repository through CMIS.

Issue is now that it seems if you deploy your Workflow model only through BPM-Deployment bean, your type definitions will not be provide through CMIS API sometimes (could not find out when it happens, and behavior is new since Alfresco 4.2.x).
My workaround was to define the model once more, to be loaded also with the dictionary bean of Alfresco, like you do for custom models.

Maybe it will work for you too!

Cheers,
D.evil

Re: Custom Workflow in Workdesk

mokus16 — Wed, 07 May 2014 07:48:14 GMT

Thank you very much for the both prompt replies.
The workaround that D.evil wrote solved my problem. Thanks a lot.