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Tying User Task to Task Details in Alfresco Share

srobinson — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:58:35 GMT

I need to produce a different task details form in Alfresco Share for each user task in my process. How do you achieve this in Alfresco Share? I have been trying to use the activiti:formKey attribute and linking that to the form id in Share, but that does not seem to work. Do I have to develop a

Re: Tying User Task to Task Details in Alfresco Share

frederikherema1 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:07:01 GMT

You should create a task-model (content-model XML) for your process. The names of the types should be the form-keys of the userTasks in your bpmn20.xml file. on top of that, you need a form-config in share (config-evaluator) for the task-form rendering.

Steps are described here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_with_Activiti
If you're form does not show up in share, make sure the form-config is wired in properly and that the form-keys match…

Re: Tying User Task to Task Details in Alfresco Share

srobinson — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:49:47 GMT

Thanks for the reply … That's the connection I was missing. I have another follow up question regarding the wf:reviewOutcome field that uses the activiti-transitions.ftl. Do the buttons that it generates set a process variable that the process instance can access or does it store the value on the Alfresco object model? If its on the Alfresco object model, how does the workflow get access to this value?

- Shannon

Re: Tying User Task to Task Details in Alfresco Share

frederikherema1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:23:44 GMT

All properties related to tasks and processes are stored as process-variables. The content-model is only used for generating form-model, but you can have other properties (not defined on model) in your process as well, for usage in your code or scripts.