topic Activiti & Liferay: cannot change status for Documents&Media in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-liferay-cannot-change-status-for-documents-media/m-p/82139#M55045 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I designed a workflow for approving new Document (file). It is just a simple workflow: 1 user task and 1 script task changing status of document:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp; &lt;process id="SimpleProcess" name="SimpleProcess"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start"&gt;&lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Script Task" scriptFormat="LiferayJavaScript"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script&gt;&lt;![CDATA[Packages.com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowStatusManagerUtil.updateStatus(Packages.com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowConstants.toStatus("approved"), workflowContext);]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/scriptTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="usertask1" name="User Task" activiti:candidateGroups="#{liferayGroups.getGroups(execution, &amp;quot;Administrator&amp;quot;)}"&gt;&lt;/userTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" name="" sourceRef="startevent1" targetRef="usertask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" name="" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="endevent1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow3" name="" sourceRef="usertask1" targetRef="scripttask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>After the workflow ends, the document gets status "approved". The problem is, that we have business requirement to change the status at the very beginning of workflow, before user task. I just change usertask and scripttask:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp; &lt;process id="SimpleProcess" name="SimpleProcess"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start"&gt;&lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Script Task" scriptFormat="LiferayJavaScript"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script&gt;&lt;![CDATA[<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Packages.com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowStatusManagerUtil.updateStatus(Packages.com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowConstants.toStatus("approved"), workflowContext);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/scriptTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="usertask1" name="User Task" activiti:candidateGroups="#{liferayGroups.getGroups(execution, &amp;quot;Administrator&amp;quot;)}"&gt;&lt;/userTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" name="" sourceRef="startevent1" targetRef="scripttask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" name="" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="usertask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow3" name="" sourceRef="usertask1" targetRef="endevent1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>and status doesn't change, the document stays "pending". Why does it happen? Could the "workflowContext" be empty before first usertask? Is it possible to run only scripttask in workflow?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>P.S. there are no exceptions in server log files, in both cases I see, that updateStatus method has been called:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />20:05:05,289 INFO&nbsp; [http-bio-6080-exec-188][LiferayScriptEngine:39] Perform Script (javascript): Packages.com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowStatusManagerUtil.updateStatus(Packages.com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowConstants.toStatus("approved"), workflowContext);<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:02:59 GMT olgaels 2012-10-22T08:02:59Z Activiti & Liferay: cannot change status for Documents&Media https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-liferay-cannot-change-status-for-documents-media/m-p/82139#M55045 Hi!I designed a workflow for approving new Document (file). It is just a simple workflow: 1 user task and 1 script task changing status of document:&nbsp; &lt;process id="SimpleProcess" name="SimpleProcess"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start"&gt;&lt;/startEvent&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="end Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:02:59 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-liferay-cannot-change-status-for-documents-media/m-p/82139#M55045 olgaels 2012-10-22T08:02:59Z Re: Activiti & Liferay: cannot change status for Documents&Media https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-liferay-cannot-change-status-for-documents-media/m-p/82140#M55046 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've got no clue what the liferay util classes do … but from the Activiti point of view it looks correct.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:13:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-liferay-cannot-change-status-for-documents-media/m-p/82140#M55046 jbarrez 2012-10-22T09:13:26Z