Old tasks and workflows

[buurd]

Hi!

Could anyone please explain how to access data about old workflows.
For example,

* list tasks performed in the context of an workflow-instance.
* list all workflows of a workflowdefinition that has ended in january.

I can't find any documentation about how to access the history of a workflow. If it exists please point me to it.

Thanks in advance
Roland

[mrogers]

It doesn't exist.

[mrogers]

It doesn't exist, there is no workflow history.

You could however implement your own.

[buurd]

Thanks for the answer.

Could you provide me with some idea about how to implement the workflow-history (what api for example).

Thanks in advance
Roland

[invictus9]

I believe that mrogers means that you can create your logging of the actions of a work flow. If you log the work flow ID & other parameters, you would then be able to display the work flow history in a way that works for you.

[buurd]

Ok, so I need to write loggingactions for every step in the workflow… really there must be a better way. I know the data is in alfresco already, atleast the standard-gui has access to it somehow.

In the gui I can:
get "tasks done" for a user, so the old-tasks are saved.
get a list of tasks that have been performed before the current, so the context of a workflow are saved.

So the limitation must be in the javascript-api, right? I really don't think that I (or anyone else) should store this information a second time in a handrolled logger, right?

I guess that I have to go Java? Suggestions about where to start?

[mrogers]

If you still have workflow instance in an End state then you can still query and display properties.  That's what the "tasks done" is doing.  

However if a workflow instance no longer exists because its been cancelled or finished then there's nothing to query.    That's what I meant by there's no workflow history.