Status on documents

[hreintke]

LS,

I am learning to understand alfresco and the approval workflow.
I have a fresh install of alfresco and removed the .sample from lifecycle-workflow-context.xml and restarted the environment.

But when I create or upload a document and start the workflow I see nowhere the status draft, in review, approved in any of the properties.

I also checked whether there was a "status" aspect which I could add but did not find that.

Do I need to configure anything more to create a status for a document and where should I do that ?

Kind regards,

Herman Reintke

[davidc]

Herman,

You'll need to configure the web client to display the status assigned by the workflow.

See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata

[hreintke]

David,

If I read the wiki, is it correct that I think I have to have to add :

    <config evaluator="aspect-name" condition="wfl:status">
      <property-sheet>
         <show-property name="wfl:status"/>
      </property-sheet>
   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Action Wizards">
      <aspects>
         <aspect name="wfl:status"/>
      </aspects>
   </config>

to the web-client-config-custom.xml and restart.

I expected that the wfl:status then should appear in the properties list of the document. But that doesn't happen.

Am I on the right track with the updates in custom config and where I would see the status field appear ?

Kind regards,

Herman

[davidc]

Try http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Displaying_Custom_Metadata#Viewing_Aspect_Properties_in_the_Web_Client...