topic Complete CheckOut/CheckIn Cycle in an advanced Workflow in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86739#M58669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I need to set up an environment allowing users to CheckOut read-only documents,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>without the permission of checking them in again until a second user reviewed the documents.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But the CheckOut/Lock permission requires write permission (right?), </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>so I thought about an advanced workflow which</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-&nbsp; ChecksOut the requested documents as admin user</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-&nbsp; allows the initiator to change the workingcopy</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-&nbsp; Submit an Reviewer-Task to an User pool if the initiator finished editing</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- CheckIn the documents if the reviewer is happy (again as admin user)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>While programming the workflow I met a problem:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The CheckIn function needs the workingCopy’s noderef as argument, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>but the workflow package only contains the original document’s node. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>So I need to save the return value from the CheckOut function for the CheckIn task.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I thought about changing the workflow package, but this seems not yet implemented in 2.0,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>so I thought about sth like adding an aspect similar to bpm:assignees , which haves an</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>association to itself, to store multiple cm:content instead of cm<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But I don’t know how to do that in alfresco script. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Or is there a way to access the DocumentDetailsBean.workingCopyDocument</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>in alfresco script like in document-details.jsp? </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(I don’t know how to access a custom action class from a workflow)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So my first question is whether the concept is good at all, or is there an easier way to allow users to</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>CheckOut ReadOnly documents and add a condition to the CheckIn mechanism?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Maybe somebody out there made already what I need, it’s after all not a very special thing…</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:03 GMT gl 2007-05-24T10:59:03Z Complete CheckOut/CheckIn Cycle in an advanced Workflow https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86739#M58669 Hi,I need to set up an environment allowing users to CheckOut read-only documents,without the permission of checking them in again until a second user reviewed the documents.But the CheckOut/Lock permission requires write permission (right?), so I thought about an advanced workflow which-&nbsp; ChecksOut Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86739#M58669 gl 2007-05-24T10:59:03Z Re: Complete CheckOut/CheckIn Cycle in an advanced Workflow https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86740#M58670 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'll provide any information if you need it, if it helps, I can post my definitions or models.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 May 2007 11:11:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86740#M58670 gl 2007-05-30T11:11:20Z Re: Complete CheckOut/CheckIn Cycle in an advanced Workflow https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86741#M58671 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>gl,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How did you go getting example files? I would be interested in seeing what you ended up with.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:05:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86741#M58671 mdickson 2007-08-01T09:05:18Z Re: Complete CheckOut/CheckIn Cycle in an advanced Workflow https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86742#M58672 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Sorry that the answer took some time, my company gave me another project to work on in the meantime, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the look-for-document-management project is still frozen.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Getting&nbsp; example files:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You can get the example files in the Alfresco tree.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you have the community version take a look at </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\workflow\</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I ended up with:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I had 2 weeks to get a picture of alfresco, but I didn’t solve this problem and I won’t try it again without help</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:24:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/complete-checkout-checkin-cycle-in-an-advanced-workflow/m-p/86742#M58672 gl 2007-08-20T14:24:40Z