topic Preset Values (vacation request example): Bug or feature? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/preset-values-vacation-request-example-bug-or-feature/m-p/134758#M94584 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>i use the </SPAN><EM>vacation request</EM><SPAN> example, existed on </SPAN><EM>Activiti 5.10</EM><SPAN>, to investigate the power of the activiti engie <img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" />&nbsp; (see xml below)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This process contains </SPAN><BR /><UL>1. start event with form (<EM>to be filled by employee</EM>)<BR />2. Handle vacation request -&nbsp; "Do you approve this vacation?" (<EM>to be filled by manager </EM>) <BR />3. exclusive Gateway <EM> <EM>Request approved?<BR />4.1&nbsp; A task <EM>"Send confirmation e-mail"</EM>, if vacation approved<BR />4.2. The user task "Adjust vacation request" , if vacation rejected (<EM>to be filled by employee</EM>)<BR />5 exclusive Gateway "Resend request?"<BR />6 and 7 - The end events.</EM></EM></UL><SPAN>Now, if the request was rejected and employee gets the "Adjust vacation request" form, the values, that the values, ​​that he has previously entered, will be displayed.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Same effect is reproducible, if the manager gets the adjusted vacation request from employee.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is it BUG or the Feature???</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>P.S XML:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;definitions id="definitions"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; targetNamespace="<A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn20</A>" <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:xsi="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A>"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xmlns:activiti="<A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn</A>"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;process id="vacationRequest" name="Vacation request test"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="request" activiti:initiator="employeeName"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="numberOfDays" name="Number of days" type="long" value="1" required="true"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="startDate" name="First day of holiday (dd-MM-yyy)" datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm" type="date" required="true" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="vacationMotivation" name="Motivation" type="string" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="request" targetRef="handleRequest" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="handleRequest" name="Handle vacation request" &gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;documentation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ${employeeName} would like to take ${numberOfDays} day(s) of vacation (Motivation: ${vacationMotivation}).<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/documentation&gt; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="vacationApproved" name="Do you approve this vacation" type="enum" required="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:value id="true" name="Approve" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:value id="false" name="Reject" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:formProperty&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="managerMotivation" name="Motivation" type="string" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;potentialOwner&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;resourceAssignmentExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;formalExpression&gt;management&lt;/formalExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/resourceAssignmentExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/potentialOwner&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/userTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" sourceRef="handleRequest" targetRef="requestApprovedDecision" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;exclusiveGateway id="requestApprovedDecision" name="Request approved?" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow3" sourceRef="requestApprovedDecision" targetRef="sendApprovalMail"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"&gt;${vacationApproved == 'true'}&lt;/conditionExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;task id="sendApprovalMail" name="Send confirmation e-mail" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow4" sourceRef="sendApprovalMail" targetRef="theEnd1" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="theEnd1" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow5" sourceRef="requestApprovedDecision" targetRef="adjustVacationRequestTask"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"&gt;${vacationApproved == 'false'}&lt;/conditionExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="adjustVacationRequestTask" name="Adjust vacation request"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;documentation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your manager has disapproved your vacation request for ${numberOfDays} days.<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reason: ${managerMotivation}<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/documentation&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="numberOfDays" name="Number of days" value="${numberOfDays}" type="long" required="true"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="startDate" name="First day of holiday (dd-MM-yyy)" value="${startDate}" datePattern="dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm" type="date" required="true" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="vacationMotivation" name="Motivation" value="${vacationMotivation}" type="string" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:formProperty id="resendRequest" name="Resend vacation request to manager?" type="enum" required="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:value id="true" name="Yes" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:value id="false" name="No" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:formProperty&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;humanPerformer&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;resourceAssignmentExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;formalExpression&gt;${employeeName}&lt;/formalExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/resourceAssignmentExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/humanPerformer&gt;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/userTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow6" sourceRef="adjustVacationRequestTask" targetRef="resendRequestDecision" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;exclusiveGateway id="resendRequestDecision" name="Resend request?" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow7" sourceRef="resendRequestDecision" targetRef="handleRequest"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"&gt;${resendRequest == 'true'}&lt;/conditionExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow8" sourceRef="resendRequestDecision" targetRef="theEnd2"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"&gt;${resendRequest == 'false'}&lt;/conditionExpression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="theEnd2" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;<BR />&nbsp; <BR />&lt;/definitions&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>‍</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><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>‍</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><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>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:46:24 GMT udoderk 2012-12-11T15:46:24Z Preset Values (vacation request example): Bug or feature? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/preset-values-vacation-request-example-bug-or-feature/m-p/134758#M94584 Hi all,i use the vacation request example, existed on Activiti 5.10, to investigate the power of the activiti engie <IMG id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" />&nbsp; (see xml below)This process contains 1. start event with form (to be filled by employee)2. Handle vacation request -&nbsp; "Do you approve this vacation?" (to be filled by manager ) 3. Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:46:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/preset-values-vacation-request-example-bug-or-feature/m-p/134758#M94584 udoderk 2012-12-11T15:46:24Z Re: Preset Values (vacation request example): Bug or feature? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/preset-values-vacation-request-example-bug-or-feature/m-p/134759#M94585 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>hmmm, good point. Never actually thought about it that way…. you could say it's a bug … but in this case you could also argue that it is a featrue, because it allows you to correct a previous value …</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:11:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/preset-values-vacation-request-example-bug-or-feature/m-p/134759#M94585 jbarrez 2012-12-18T16:11:56Z