Getting an exported App into Alfresco Share - any existing tools?

[gagravarr]

I've known for some time that it's possible to use the online Alfresco Activiti instance to easily create workflows, then export them as BPMN2.0 files for use elsewhere. We've made use of that a bit for building workflows to use in our on-premise Alfresco install, as the web interface seems to go down well with some of our business users. The only snag is the forms.

Having discovered yesterday that you can also download an App as a zip of json, including the form definitions, I'm now thinking it should be possible to write a tool to do much of the conversion. The form definition json looks like it should have most of what we'd need to generate at least a basic Alfresco Share forms service form config definition xml. Before I spend some time playing around trying to write one, I wondered - is there one already existing?

[jbarrez]

No, afaik, nothing like that exists at the moment, but I assume it would be a helpful thing to have for many people.

[gagravarr]

So, this turned out to be a tiny bit more work than I'd initially expected it to be….

I do now, however, have a converter written which is able to handle much of the basics. I've been able to drop the output from it into an Alfresco 4.2 instance, have some form fields show up, and the workflow start! More work is needed though.

The code is available at https://github.com/Gagravarr/activiti-enterprise-to-alfresco

[jbarrez]

Interesting! I already suspected it was not going to be a walk in the park 😉