Workflow in Alfresco Enterprise evaluation

[dougf]

I've seen a previous post stating 'I'm using Alfresco community 4.2.c. I tried to access the "Activiti workflow console". There is no "Workflow" in the Admin Console. It does not included in the community version?'

The answer was that workflow is not included in the community version.  I have the Enterprise evaluation version and I have the same problem - is it not in the evaluation version either?  Further, I've tried to install JBMP to create workflows there and the final step in the installation says to copy activation.jar from the Alfresco install directory ('usually tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib ') to the jBPM lib directory.  I have no activation.jar files in either the WEB-INF/lib directory or indeed within the whole Alfresco install structure - so I can't get any workflow working through that route either.

So can anyone tell me if the workflow functionality is excluded from the evaluation version?  This was my main reason for wanting to undertake the evaluation - to see what the workflow functionality could do.

Many thanks,

Doug.

Alfresco version 4.2.0 Enterprise Evaluation

[jpotts]

The comment that workflow is not in the community version is not accurate. Both editions contain both the jBPM workflow engine and the Activiti workflow engine.

The workflow console that has been in the product since workflow was added is:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

That console can be used to administer both jBPM and Activiti based workflows.

The workflow console that was probably being referred to is the Activiti Workflow Console which is only shipped with Enterprise Edition.

If you want to learn more about workflows, you might be interested in one of these tutorials:

http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-workflow/advanced-workflow-article-2ed.pdf (Activiti and Share)

http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-workflow/advanced-workflow-article.pdf (jBPM and Explorer)

I hope this clears up the confusion and gets you pointed in the right direction.

If you give me the link to that other post you are referring to I'll respond to that thread to make sure that no one else makes the same mistake.

Jeff

[dougf]

Thanks, Jeff.

Apologies for the delay in replying, I have been having lots of issues with 404 messages saying resources not available.  I've only been able to finally get rid of these by uninstalling and reinstalling.

First things first - the original post I was referring to was:

https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/workflow/access-activiti-workflow-console-al...

In your reply you pointed me to

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

However, when I try to connect to that I get a message of HTTP Status 403 - access to the specified resource has been forbidden.  I understand that I need to be logged into Alfresco explorer as administrator prior to trying this, which I am.  Is there something else I need to be doing?

I followed this thread https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/workflow/403-access-resource-forbidden-workf..., but I am still getting the error.

Also in my previous post there was a question about the activation.jar file needed for using jBPM within Eclipse.  Is there anywhere I can get that?

thanks,

Doug.

[dougf]

Jeff,

please ignore the above comments.  I have managed to get into the workflow console - I'm not sure what I did differently but it allowed me access.

The workflow console wasn't quite what I was expected, but that led me to the Activiti plug-in for Eclipse which I've now installed.  I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but I will probably use this rather than jBPM since I can't get that working.

thanks,

Doug.

[7joeblack8]

You can access the wf console, only once you logged in in alfresco explorer: then simply fire up the link of the console.
It's explained well in the latest Jeff's Blog post in his Ecm Architect.

It's commonly recognized weird but that's it.