Display UI custom message in a workflow

[uskiki85]

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to display a custom message like "Workflow starting" ? or custom error message ?

Many thanks for your help

Regards

uskiki85

PS: My Workflow is used in Alfresco Share only

[uskiki85]

No ideas ?

[mikeh]

No ideas ?

Not too surprising given the vague requirements in your first post. Where would you like the message displayed? And when? In response to what?

Please help people to help you by giving as much context to your problems as possible. In this case, perhaps a quick screenshot or sketch would help.

Thanks,
Mike

[uskiki85]

Oups sorry …

In my case, when a user starts a workflow, it moves a document from one space to another. However, some documents are quite heavy so it takes some time. The user, seeing nothing happen, launch the workflow again and again ….

I want that when the workflow has launched, a message display that the document is being moved or the workflow has started. The user can see with this way that the treatment has begun.

[uskiki85]

No idéas ?

It is strange that nobody has find or developed a solution to display custom UI message in a workflow ?

I have read in some post that it is possible with a custom constraint with addErrorMessage (java org.alfresco.web.ui.common.Utils) but i am not a java expert …

[zomurn]

Hi uskiki85,

Can you tell me how did you do to deploy a workflow (that works for me) and display it on Share so as to be able to start a new instance off this new custom workflow.

Thanks

[uskiki85]

zomurn, I deploy my WF using the Console with the "deploy" command but i don't understand your question with my problem …

Nobody can help me ?

[tiuser123]

any update on this?

[uskiki85]

hello tiuser123, it seems that nobody need to display some UI custom message in their workflow …

[tiuser123]

Aw… custom dialogs are needed if you want to throw a custom error message or alert the user during your workflow processing.

(i.e if moving a folder fails, I would like to catch the moving error (i.e permission or duplicate name) and throw my custom error and show a my custom error message in a dialog. Currently, an ugly "org.Activiti.Exception.. blah blah" message is being shown.)

Can we log a request for this in the JIRA or somewhere so that they are aware of this?