I would like to customize the My task dashlet to display also the task that has been initiated or contributed by the user
All right,1/ You have to customize the "workflow" object that is used in the "My tasks" dashletpublic class WorkflowCustom extends Workflow {
private ServiceRegistry services;
/**
* Sets the service registry
*
* @param services
* the service registry
*/
@Override
public void setServiceRegistry(ServiceRegistry services) {
this.services = services;
super.setServiceRegistry(this.services);
}
private WorkflowService getWorkflowService() {
return this.services.getWorkflowService();
}
/**
* Convert a list of WorkflowTask items into bean objects accessable from
* templates
*
* @param tasks
* List of WorkflowTask objects to convert
*
* @return List of WorkflowTaskItem bean wrapper objects
*/
private List<WorkflowTaskItem> convertTasks(List<WorkflowTask> tasks) {
List<WorkflowTaskItem> items = new ArrayList<WorkflowTaskItem>(tasks
.size());
for (WorkflowTask task : tasks) {
items.add(new WorkflowTaskItem(this.services,
getTemplateImageResolver(), task));
}
return items;
}
/**
* Return a list of objects representing the tasks initialized by the
* current user
*
* @return list of WorkflowTaskItem bean objects {@link WorkflowTaskItem}
*/
public List<WorkflowTaskItem> getInitializedTasks() {
// get the initialized tasks by the current user
List<WorkflowTask> tasks = null;
// get the current username
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
User user = Application.getCurrentUser(context);
String userName = user.getUserName();
UserTransaction tx = null;
try {
tx = Repository.getUserTransaction(context, true);
tx.begin();
// query for all active tasks
WorkflowTaskQuery query = new WorkflowTaskQuery();
tasks = this.getWorkflowService().queryTasks(query);
// commit the changes
tx.commit();
} catch (Throwable e) {
// rollback the transaction
try {
if (tx != null) {
tx.rollback();
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
}
Utils.addErrorMessage(
"Failed to get tasks initialized by the user: "
+ e.toString(), e);
}
List<WorkflowTaskItem> allTaskItems = convertTasks(tasks);
List<WorkflowTaskItem> initializedTaskItems = new ArrayList<WorkflowTaskItem>(
allTaskItems.size());
for (WorkflowTaskItem taskItem : allTaskItems) {
if (taskItem.getInitiator().getNodeRef().equals(user.getPerson())) {
initializedTaskItems.add(taskItem);
}
}
Collections.reverse(initializedTaskItems);
return initializedTaskItems;
}
/**
* Return a list of objects representing the assigned tasks for the current
* user
*
* @return list of WorkflowTaskItem bean objects {@link WorkflowTaskItem}
*/
@Override
public List<WorkflowTaskItem> getAssignedTasks() {
// get the "in progress" tasks for the current user
List<WorkflowTaskItem> assignedTasks = super.getAssignedTasks();
Collections.reverse(assignedTasks);
return assignedTasks;
}
/**
* Return a list of objects representing the pooled tasks for the current
* user
*
* @return list of WorkflowTaskItem bean objects {@link WorkflowTaskItem}
*/
@Override
public List<WorkflowTaskItem> getPooledTasks() {
// get the "pooled" tasks for the current user
List<WorkflowTaskItem> pooledTasks = super.getPooledTasks();
Collections.reverse(pooledTasks);
return pooledTasks;
}
/**
* Returns owner first name
*
* @param owner
* @return
*/
public String getTaskOwnerFirstName(String owner) {
return UserUtilsGP.getUserFirstName(owner);
}
/**
* Returns owners last name
*
* @param owner
* @return
*/
public String getTaskOwnerLastName(String owner) {
return UserUtilsGP.getUserLastName(owner);
}
/**
* Returns pooled task group display name
*
* @param taskId
* @return
*/
public String getTaskPooledActorsGroup(String taskId) {
NodeRef group = WorkflowUtilsGP.getPooledActorsGroup(taskId);
String displayName = "";
if (group != null) {
displayName = UserUtilsGP.getGroupDisplayName(group);
}
return displayName;
}
}
You also have to declare it in order to be taken into account :<bean id="workflowTemplateExtension" parent="baseTemplateImplementation" class="org.alfresco.web.repo.template.WorkflowCustom">
<property name="extensionName">
<value>workflow</value>
</property>
<property name="serviceRegistry">
<ref bean="ServiceRegistry"/>
</property>
</bean>
in custom-template-services-context.xml2/ Customize the dashlet :- add a new filter in the mytasks.get.html.ftl<li <#if filter=6>class="taskCurrent"</#if>><a href="#" onclick="MyTasks.filter(6); return false;"><span id="todoInitializedHeader" >My initialized tasks</span></a></li>
- customize mytaskspanel.get.html.ftl, following the examples already in this very file
