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How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

tasse007 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:36:41 GMT

Hello community,I studied the code of the xml sample files (the already deployed ones) in Activiti Explorer and created my own workflow model in eclipse with the acitivi plugin. Firstly I built my process as an acitivi diagram and then went into the xml file of the diagram and added workflow parts l

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

pault — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:12:47 GMT

In Activiti Explorer go to Manage > Deployments and choose 'Upload New'. That will allow you to choose a file to upload.

That is how it works in version 5.22, it may be slightly different for other versions but the principle will be the same.

You can also deploy programatically via the API.

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

tasse007 — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:30:46 GMT

But it only takes a bpmn20.xml file and I don't know how to do this.

I have a normal xml file.

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

pault — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:53:01 GMT

I think you just need to make sure your file name ends .bpmn20.xml, and then assuming it contains a valid activiti BPMN 2.0 definition it should load.

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

tasse007 — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:37:12 GMT

You mean I should manually rename the end of the file name?

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

pault — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:06:04 GMT

When I have created the files manually I just make sure the name ends.bpmn20.xml, so yes just try renaming your file and test it. If it is valid it should load.

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

tasse007 — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:01:52 GMT

Dear PaulT,

thanks for your help. Btw, can you send me an example of a self-written workflow code you were able to upload into the activiti workflow management system? Maybe I will discover some mistakes I did in my code.

Re: How to successfully upload an XML workflow into Acitivi Explorer?

pault — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:59:05 GMT

I initially created my processes by modifying the demo processes that ship with Activiti simply using a text editor, so they would be a better thing to look at for examples.

They can be found in the .WAR file, or in the deployed tomcat server. Path WEB_INF\classes\org\activiti\explorer\demo\process

Hope this helps