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workflow - naming tasks inquiry

tsgpartner_mui — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:12:25 GMT

Hi all,I created a custom workflow that doesnt allow a user to assign a task to another user/group to review/approve content because it is hard coded into the my custom process definition. What I have done: I hard coded a group for a reviewed-pooled type of workflow. Using the wf:submitGroupReview

Re: workflow - naming tasks inquiry

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:10:18 GMT

Well, you made the mistake of modifying the definition for the original workflows for your needs in stead of creating a new model with the required definition.
What you need to do is to restore the original files for the model and process definitions of the "standard" workflows.
Next you create a copy of both definition files and place them with a new name in the "extension" folder (see also the WIKI on Workflow Administration for details). Now you have to modify both files such that the model definitions are no longer referred to by "wf:" but for instance by "mywf:". In this way you have made a carbon copy of the original advanced workflows.
In these "new" definition files you make the modifications as you describe.
Next you have to "deploy" the new workflow by creating the proper entry lines in the following files:

And finally you have to add lines to the file "web-client-config-custom.xml" to ensure that the proper properties are visible in the task view. For more information on how to do this you can read http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WorkflowAdministration
I hope this helps.
Regards, Rob

Re: workflow - naming tasks inquiry

tsgpartner_mui — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:58:12 GMT

thank you rob for pointing out that mistake.

It was able to make the changes and it worked. Now I'm trying to modify my custom 'advanced' workflow into a WCM workflow, which I should be able to figure out if I follow these steps again, and also referring to the default wcm 'submit' workflow for guidance.

thanks once again.

Re: workflow - naming tasks inquiry

tsgpartner_mui — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:02:19 GMT

I'm really close, I believe, to getting this wcm workflow to work in web projects.

But not quite there yet, I think the problem again is naming conventions.

Heres what my tomcat spitted out:

WARNING: Cannot find WCM workflow def for configured definition name: testwcmwf:wcmtest

That is what I named my workflow: wcmtest.
And 'testwcmwf' is the carbon copy of 'wcmwf'.

What I've done: I know from the another forum discussion, in the web-client-config-wcm.xml file, you have to enable this wcm workflow to be visible in the <workflows> tags.

I think this is where Alfresco is getting confused. Or otherwise I have the models names, prefixes, etc entered wrong in my created files, though I think its correct.

So I'm kina stuck, why cant it locate the workflow definition?
The workflow doesnt show up when I'm creating a new web project, just this error appears.

thanks for any help

Re: workflow - naming tasks inquiry

tsgpartner_mui — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:55:56 GMT

anyone know how to resolve, or tried creating their own custom wcm workflow?