topic How To Plugin Custom GroupEntityManager Correctly in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117994#M83217 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello guys,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am currently struggeling with my custom implementation of user and group management and hope that someone here can help me.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What I want to do is to use my own group and user tables to run process workflows. Especially the question who is allowed to start a process is interesting for me. I have found the following configuration which seems to do the right thing:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;process id="my_process" name="My Process" activiti:candidateStarterGroups="testGroup"&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So I tried to get the groups that are allowed to start the process by using the following line of code:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />List&lt;Group&gt; authorizedGroups = identService.createGroupQuery().potentialStarter(processDefId).list();<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Without any further customization the list authorizedGroups is empty since the testGroup is not know to Activiti.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So I wrote my own UserEntityManager and my own GroupEntityManager and plugged them in into activiti.cfg.xml</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;property name="customSessionFactories"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;bean class="com.test.MyUserManagerFactory" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="com.test.MyGroupManagerFactory" /&gt;<BR /> &lt;/list&gt;<BR />&lt;/property&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This seems to work well but my result list was still empty although all the finders in the Manager implementations are targeting my own tables.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Further debugging revealed that the reason is the following method of the GroupEntityManager:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />public List&lt;Group&gt; findGroupByQueryCriteria(GroupQueryImpl query, Page page)<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This method is executed by the call above with the process definition id as filter criteria. My problem here is that I do not see any chance to control the target user and group tables used by this finder since it is executing a hardcoded sql query.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This query selects all groups from the activiti own tables an tries to find a join partner in the IDENTITI_LINK table. Since the testGroup above is missing in the activiti group table I get no results here.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone have a hint for me what I am doing wrong? How can I configure activiti to look for roles in my own tables?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advace!</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 May 2013 14:16:18 GMT uprooter 2013-05-23T14:16:18Z How To Plugin Custom GroupEntityManager Correctly https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117994#M83217 Hello guys,I am currently struggeling with my custom implementation of user and group management and hope that someone here can help me.What I want to do is to use my own group and user tables to run process workflows. Especially the question who is allowed to start a process is interesting for me. Thu, 23 May 2013 14:16:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117994#M83217 uprooter 2013-05-23T14:16:18Z Re: How To Plugin Custom GroupEntityManager Correctly https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117995#M83218 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>did you actually override the findGroupByQueryCriteria method?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 May 2013 15:34:05 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117995#M83218 frederikherema1 2013-05-23T15:34:05Z Re: How To Plugin Custom GroupEntityManager Correctly https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117996#M83219 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No I did not because I had no idea what to put in there. Should I execute my own query which joins the IDENTITY_LINK table with my own group table or whats the best approach? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It seems to me a little cumbersome to replace all Activiti queries with my own in order to be able to work with custom user management tables.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 May 2013 06:01:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117996#M83219 uprooter 2013-05-24T06:01:14Z Re: How To Plugin Custom GroupEntityManager Correctly https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117997#M83220 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>If you want to have full support for you're own identity-management, you should replace that one query (not all activiti-queries). That's the whole point, all group-related queries are in there. The group-query doesn't contain that much fields.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 May 2013 09:37:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117997#M83220 frederikherema1 2013-05-24T09:37:27Z Re: How To Plugin Custom GroupEntityManager Correctly https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117998#M83221 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thank you. I will try that out.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-plugin-custom-groupentitymanager-correctly/m-p/117998#M83221 uprooter 2013-05-24T10:15:15Z