Reproduce Workflow actions in Alfresco Mobile

[jlabuelo]

Hi all

We have defined a custom workflow for documents that have some tasks assigned in each step. The worklow starts with  a customized dialog that requires the entrance of values for the parameters of the metadata associated to a document. At the end of the dialog a PDF document is created with the data entered in the dialog, and the workflow starts.

Basically the workflow sends the document for review to three people in order, each of them need to sigh electronically the pdf document and a timestamp is associated to the PDF document.

My question here is, this task already designed in Alfresco 4.2 Community could be executed in Mobile version for Android or IOS tablets?.

If so could you point me where to start searching for guideness?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

[mikeh]

Hi

Right now we don't support custom workflow or custom metadata in either of the mobile apps. This is something we're currently thinking about but need to make significant modifications to both SDKs in order to ensure full support and also add support at the app layer. We also have the problem that the forms config is in the wrong webapp right now (share rather than alfresco) so are brainstorming ways of working around that.

Having said that, if your custom workflow requires *any* custom code on the Share level you'll need to build the equivalent UI/logic for mobile too, i.e. equip yourself with Eclipse and/or Xcode and customise the code; there's only so much we can achieve through config alone.

Yours does sound like an interesting test case for proving our design work supports these scenarios. If you're not tied by confidentiality (or you can anonymise the data & processes) I'd be very grateful if you could forward me the workflow customisations. I can be reached via email - mike.hatfield at alfresco.

Thanks,
Mike

[cybermakoki]

Hi Mike,

I would like to reopen this post because it's not really clear to me if it's possible to create custom workflows in the mobile app or not.

We have a requirement from a client, they need a custom activiti workflow that is already implemented in Alfresco Share, to be available in the Alfresco mobile app. This workflow has custom metadata, and does some actions apart from the Review & Approve actions.

My question is, if possible to implement this workflow in the Mobile app if we build all the UI? does the SDK support this kind of implementation?

Thank you in advance

[mikeh]

Yes, the SDK supports this scenario. The reason we can't currently support custom workflow from an app level is that we have no access to the Alfresco Share custom configuration, so cannot determine what custom metadata fields to display to the user. A custom UI build specifically for that workflow or workflows would not have that restriction.

Thanks,
Mike

[cybermakoki]

thanks Mike!