With Alfresco

[dranakan]

Hello,

I would like to use Activiti in Alfresco to manage invoices. I am waiting the 4.0a to do that…
I have tried the 5.6 and I just have questions about the general use of Activiti.

My idea is to start a workflow with each invoices. During the workflow somes users can add informations…

Do the information of the Workflow always store in database ? (there are not remove automaticly after X days). Can I show them 4 years after for exemple ?
Can we show the workflow history for a document ?
Can we show all current Workflows ? Are there a UI for that. (not all task for the user, but all current workflows). Man can see it in activiti-probe but are the a UI for users ?

Thank you.

[trademak]

Hi,

- Yes the process information is always stored in a database. They are not removed automatically. So yes you can show them after 4 years.
- I'm not a Alfresco Share or Team expert but you should be able to show workflow history.
- Yes you can show all current workflows. But this is an admin tool, similar to Probe.

Best regards,

[dranakan]

Thank you 🙂

[jose_antonio_al]

About the Alfresco thing, you can easily retrieve all versions for an specific document. For instance if you are using the REST API, check this link:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_RESTful_API_Reference#Retrieve_all_versions_.28getAllVersio...

Probably the document workflow implementations will make use of this API, so it is a good point to start with.

Best regards,
José Antonio

[arnoldschrijver]

It depends on what you mean by 'workflow history':

As far as I can see from the Alfresco preview release with Activiti integration (3.4e) there is now only a list of active workflows, where you can see the task history of each running workflow.

Once the workflow is completed it is no longer available and this data is no longer accessible (at least through the UI…don't know if it still exists in the db). There is a JIRA issue requesting for a workflow history feature, but that dates back to 2009 (see http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3742).

I don't know if such a feature is planned in 4.0 release, though.

[dranakan]

Thank you. I have added a vote.