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alessioa_ · ‎10-09-2006

Hi to all the folks,
i have problems to deploy on Alfresco a sample workflow.
I follow these steps:
1) create the process with eclipse
2) tried to deploy the process from eclipse; it's work but after this i don't understood how link my process with the task model i created for it.
For this reason i proceeded with a manual deploy ad create this file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<beans>

    <bean id="extension.workflowBootstrap" parent="workflowDeployer">
          <property name="workflowDefinitions">
            <list>
               <props>
                  <prop key="engineId">jbpm</prop>
                  <prop key="location">alfresco/extension/my_workflow/processes/alessio_AdHocProcessDefinition.xml</prop>
                  <prop key="mimetype">text/xml</prop>
                  <prop key="redeploy">true</prop>
               </props>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="models">
            <list>
                <value>alfresco/extension/my_workflow/models/alessio_AdHocTaskModel.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

</beans>

3) Stopped the server and placed this file under <alfresco home directory>\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension

4) created the my_workflow directory with the sub-directories models and processes

5) placed under these directories the respective files (alessio_AdHocProcessDefinition.xml, alessio_AdHocTaskModel.xml)

6) Started the server and received the follow error:

org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Workflow deployment failed
   at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.WorkflowDeployer.deploy(WorkflowDeployer.java:217)
   at org.alfresco.repo.workflow.WorkflowDeployer.onApplicationEvent(WorkflowDeployer.java:233)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:45)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:225)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:323)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:134)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:184)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3692)

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Can someone help me? What do i mistake during the deploy process?

Thank you very much
Alessio A.

davidc · ‎10-09-2006

The jBPM process designer within Eclipse can only deploy jPDL process definitions. It cannot (yet) deploy Alfresco task models - we may add this in the future.

Re: your manual deploy exception - can you post the full exception so we can see the source error?

alessioa_ · ‎10-09-2006

Hi davidc,
solved the error.
I forgot to put the namespace in the value of the attribute name of the tag property; this caused the exception i posted.
Thanks for the attention
Alessio A.

rgouyet · ‎11-21-2006

Hi Alessio,

I try to do the same thing as you : putting my workflow files under \tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension directory.

But how alfresco knows to read this file ?

I tried but my workflow doesn't appears …

Thanks

Romain

alessioa_ · ‎11-24-2006

Hi rgouyet,
Alfresco automatically read under the extension folder…
Could you post your workflow files?
Probably the problem is on its….

Best reagrds
Alessio A.

davidc · ‎12-01-2006

Just to clarify, Alfresco has to be told to deploy a workflow definition in extension directory, using the configuration described in…

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WorkflowAdministration#Manually_deploying_a_jPDL_XML_file_or_Process_A...