topic Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated in Alfresco Archive

Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

jzulu2000 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:02:18 GMT

I'm trying to start a workflow not from a document, but from an user action. I added the following configuration in the web-client-config-custom.xml for the user action to appear on the user actions menu: <config replace="false"> <actions> <action-group id="browse

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

jzulu2000 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:02:32 GMT

I think this is an alfresco bug. I've posted a jira: http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1685

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

jdbrown — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:40:05 GMT

bpmackage is configured as mandatory in the bpmModel.xml. So, workflow does require a document to be assigned.

<association name="bpm:package">
  <source>
              <mandatory>false</mandatory>
              <many>false</many>
  </source>
  <target>
              <class>bpm:workflowPackage</class>
          <mandatory>true</mandatory>
              <many>false</many>
  </target>
</association>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

You could still trigger the workflow based on user action, but you would need to assign a document as well.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

jzulu2000 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:58:32 GMT

Hi jdbrown.
Thanks for you reply.

I think alfresco could create a package with no documents on it, just an empty package; I checked the code and changing 2 lines of code this is possible.
Maybe not all workflows in the world have a document as a starting point.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

davidc — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:42:10 GMT

The workflow package is mandatory, but it can be empty. The workflow service allows for this.

I checked the code and changing 2 lines of code this is possible.
Maybe not all workflows in the world have a document as a starting point.

Which 2 lines? Perhaps we can fix.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

jzulu2000 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:46:17 GMT

Hi Davidc.

I posted a jira with the solution. http://issues.alfresco.com/browse/AR-1685.

The idea is to change the finishImpl method in the org.alfresco.web.bean.workflow.StartWorkflowWizard object to create the workflowPackage even if the this.packageItemsToAdd.size() == 0.

Thanks for you reply.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

davidc — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:54:32 GMT

The fix has been made to the 2.1 enterprise branch. It will propagate to HEAD soon - I'll let you know.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

davidc — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:55:09 GMT

BTW, thanks for the fix.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

risenhoover — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:32:16 GMT

Hey guys – I'm having a similar problem trying to kick off a Simple Workflow rule without a document. My asset is a custom type that descends from cm:content but does not actually have anything in that property – can you advise on how I might work around this?

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

mrogers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:47:14 GMT

The solution is the same as in 2007. Create an empty package.

Re: Is it possible to start workflow with no document associated

jayjayecl — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:07:09 GMT

the solution is described here

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=17466