Activiti workflow console in Community?

[nicolabeghin]

Hi everyone
do you know if there's any way to get Activiti workflow console working in the Community version?

thanks
nicola

[jpotts]

It's something that we would like to put in Community Edition but it hasn't been given priority as of yet.

If someone in the Community does it, that's great, but I haven't looked at the technical implementation details, so I can't point you in the right direction.

Jeff

[cgiuliano]

Hi Jeff,

I hope this topic is still of some interest as it is for me.

I made some attemps on the Community edition 4.2.c, trying to integrate the Activity admin console module (taken from the Enterprise Edition), after upgrading the Activiti engine from version 5.10 to 5.13. The outcome was not exciting…
After upgrading to Community 4.2.e. that became a much easier task!
So here it is!

I'm sorry I'm not very good at packaging extensions, neither I would know where to place an amp to be shared with the Community…

These are the libraries needed that I've taken from the Enterprise edition distribution and put into webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\lib:
<ul>   activiti-explorer-5.13-alf-20130918.jar
   activiti-json-converter-5.13-alf-20130918.jar
   activiti-simple-workflow-5.13-alf-20130918.jar
   activiti-webapp-explorer2-5.13-alf-20130918-ui-jar.jar
   vaadin-6.8.8.jar
</ul>
Furthermore the following classes (from org.alfresco.enterprise.workflow.activi package) are needed:
<ul>   ActivitiLoggedInUser.class
   ActivitiScriptNodeListRenderer.class
   ActivitiScriptNodeRenderer.class
   AlfrescoLoginHandler.class</ul>
I've repackaged the above into an alfresco-enterprise-repo-4.2.0-EXTRACT.jar file.

Then you need the activiti-context.xml file in
<ul>   webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\enterprise</ul>
(here you can comment the beans for MultiTenant management, if it's not your case)

and the activiti-admin webscripts
<ul>   activiti-admin.get.desc.xml
   activiti-admin.get.js
   activiti-admin.get.html.ftl</ul>
to be copied into
<ul>   webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\enterprise\webscripts\org\alfresco\enterprise\activiti</ul>

Finally you need to declare the new servlet into web.xml:

<servlet>
   <servlet-name>Vaadin Application Servlet</servlet-name>
   <servlet-class>org.activiti.explorer.servlet.ExplorerApplicationServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>Vaadin Application Servlet</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/activiti-admin/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>Vaadin Application Servlet</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/VAADIN/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
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I have also added a link to this console into the admin-console.jsp page, by adding a navigation rule in faces-config-custom.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE faces-config PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JavaServer Faces Config 1.1//EN"
                              "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd">
<faces-config>
   <navigation-rule>
      <from-view-id>/jsp/*</from-view-id>
      <navigation-case>
         <from-outcome>showActivitiConsole</from-outcome>
         <to-view-id>/activiti-admin</to-view-id>
      </navigation-case>
   </navigation-rule>
</faces-config>
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and the action link in admin-console.jsp:

<a:actionLink value="Activiti admin console" image="/images/icons/workflow.gif" padding="2" action="dialog:showActivitiConsole" styleClass="title" />
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I saw that even in the Enterprise edition the link to the Activiti modeler is broken.


Jeff, would you please help me in understanding whether:
   1) there is no licensing issue in using this Enterprise component
   2) there is a useful Activiti modeler available tobe integrated with the Activiti admin console?


Thanks a lot for all your help you are giving us!

Carlo Giuliano