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How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

paiyyavj13 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:35:24 GMT

I have created processes earlier on Alfresco Activiti which had single group or single user reviewer assignment. I am facing difficulty in assigning a parallel task to multiple users, using the form based BPMN designer. Has any one done this before? any pointers please?

Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

cjose — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:21:38 GMT

You can achieve this in two ways:

1) Use of "parallel gateway"

2) Using the multi-instance property available on UserTask

Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

paiyyavj13 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:48:40 GMT

Hi Ciju,

Thanks for your response.... I did try this but I ave few queries...

I am using Alfresco Activiti application.

On the submit form, I can add Group or Users... How can I add multiple Groups in the Form pallette?
How to I store the group names in a variable? so that I can mention the variable name in Collection(Multi-Instance)
under Assignment, what should I choose (I want multiple groups for parallel review, ideally a variable having all the groups)

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

gdharley — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:57:47 GMT

To use the collection feature, create a list of user id's and save them in a process variable.

e.g.

List<User> users = userService.getAllUsers(0,999,tenantId);
for (User u : users) {
idList.add(u.getId());
}
execution.setVariable('assigneeList', idList);

Now, set the collection property to the name of this variable.

e.g.

Just a note, this is using the BPMN editor, I am not familiar enough with the Kickstart editor to know if it can handle this sort of thing.

Greg

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Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

paiyyavj13 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:22:20 GMT

Hi Greg,

Thank you for the response... the screenshots really helped... and yes I am using the same BPMN editor.

The problem with me is that I need to get multiple users from a custom Submit form, the Submit form does not have or maybe I cannot figure out a way to get multiple users in that form. pls check the screenshot below:

Appreciate your help!!!

Regards.

Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

gdharley — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:56:52 GMT

Ahh yes, you would need to create a custom Ui widget to select multiple people.

Creating custom form widgets is relatively straight forward, but requires a reasonable understanding of AngularJS.

Regards,

Greg

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Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

paiyyavj13 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:12:27 GMT

Thank you Greg.... let me look that up...

Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

rachana — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:00:02 GMT

Hi Paiyyavj13,

Have you find any solution. I have same requirement.How to select multiple users in form?

Re: How to design a parallel group review workflow using Alfresco Activiti KickStart Designer App?

paiyyavj13 — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:46:26 GMT

Hi Rachana _‌

I created a custom Stencil on Alfresco Process Services which I used for the field- allowing Multiple Users to be selected.

Check about the Custom Stencils to find out more...

Regards.