topic Help creating/using a task listener in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52301#M30701 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN style="color:#000000;">I need help on creating and using a task listener for a user task. <BR />I want to print out a meassage to tomcat/console saying at task: nameoftask, task assigne to: assignee, task completed, same over and over again for each task in the process until it's finished (i.e. a type of logging to keep track of what stage I'm at in the process)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>for this task when I run it through the explorer it won't run and i get an errors saying couldn't istantiate class prototype_process.MakeRequestCreateTaskListener, and also class not found: prototype_process.MakeRequestCreateTaskListener</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="color:#0080FF;">&lt;userTask id="makeRequest" name="Make Request" activiti:assignee="${initiator}"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;documentation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please fill out the form below, If you haven't ordered a phone before enter 1 in the years since last phone request field, You will have to re-enter the form with a value less than or equal to 5, if you enter a figure greater than 5 in the Years since last phone request field, as the scheme has a mandatory upgrade after 5 years<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/documentation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="employeeName" name="Employee Name:" type="string" required="true"&gt;&lt;/activiti:formProperty&gt;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="yearsSinceLastPhoneRequest" name="Years since last phone request:" type="long" required="true"&gt;&lt;/activiti:formProperty&gt; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:taskListener event="create" class="prototype_methods.MakeRequestCreateTaskListener" &gt;&lt;/activiti:taskListener&gt; <BR />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/userTask&gt; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I currently have a task listener for one of my tasks, that should print out a line to the console/tomcat "currently at task 1", which I'm not sure is the correct way of doing it, I want to print out a String saying currently at Task 1, my task listener looks like this:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="color:#0080FF;">package prototype_methods;<BR /><BR />import org.activiti.engine.delegate.DelegateTask;<BR />import org.activiti.engine.delegate.TaskListener;<BR /><BR />public class MakeRequestCreateTaskListener implements TaskListener {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;@Override<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public void notify(DelegateTask delegateTask) {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; delegateTask.setDescription("currently at task 1");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>and my code that runs/deploys the the process on to the process is:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="color:#0080FF;">package prototype_process;<BR /><BR />import org.activiti.engine.ProcessEngine;<BR /><BR />public class CompanyPhoneOrderProcess {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public static void main(String[] args) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// Create Activiti process engine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngineConfiguration.createStandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration().buildProcessEngine();&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// Get Activiti services&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;RepositoryService repositoryService = processEngine.getRepositoryService(); <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// Deploy the process definition&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;repositoryService.createDeployment().addClasspathResource("prototype_process\\CompanyPhoneOrderProcess.bpmn20.xml").deploy(); <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>the task listener class is in a different package to the code that runs and deploys the process/bpmn20.xml file, when i put them in the same package no difference was made and still got he same errors</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:27:38 GMT arschloch1989 2011-12-20T13:27:38Z Help creating/using a task listener https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52301#M30701 I need help on creating and using a task listener for a user task. I want to print out a meassage to tomcat/console saying at task: nameoftask, task assigne to: assignee, task completed, same over and over again for each task in the process until it's finished (i.e. a type of logging to keep track o Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:27:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52301#M30701 arschloch1989 2011-12-20T13:27:38Z Re: Help creating/using a task listener https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52302#M30702 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>figured out how to get it working.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>had to put a jar file of my java classes in the following folders to get the class to load so the tasklistener could work:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>activiti-5.7\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.32\webapps\activiti-rest\WEB-INF\lib </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>and</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>activiti-5.7\apps\apache-tomcat-6.0.32\webapps\activiti-explorer\WEB-INF\lib</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:08:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52302#M30702 arschloch1989 2011-12-22T13:08:20Z Re: Help creating/using a task listener https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52303#M30703 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks, that was useful. The ant file in the demo only copies to the rest folder for some reason.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 May 2012 10:36:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/help-creating-using-a-task-listener/m-p/52303#M30703 wuerg 2012-05-21T10:36:26Z