Workflow

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Workflow
Starting from Alfresco Community 3.4.e, the Activiti BPMN 2.0 BPM engine is now embedded in Alfresco in addition to the original jBPM engine. You can discover more in Workflow_with_Activiti.

The rest of this page discusses Workflow using the original jBPM engine.

Table of Contents

• 1 End User Features


• 2 Administration


• 3 Developer


• 4 Infrastructure


• 5 Tutorials

End User Features

Start Workflow (from a pre-defined list of registered Workflows)

• Enter workflow parameters (e.g. due date, priority)
  
• Attach resources (i.e. documents) to workflow 
  
• Assign workflow participants (i.e. Alfresco users)
  
  • Groups - V2.0 onwards
    
    

List tasks assigned to user (from dashboard)

List tasks completed by user (from dashboard)

List tasks assigned to your pool (from dashboard) - V2.0 onwards

View & Manage Task

• Edit task related information
  
• Add Commentary - V2.1 onwards
  
• Review workflow history - V2.1 onwards
  
• View and perform operations (e.g. checkout, edit, delete) on attached documents
  
• Attach new documents to workflow
  
• Re-assign Task to another user
  
• Mark task as Done (or select pre-defined outcome)
  
• Take ownership or Return to Pool - V2.0 onwards
  
  

Cancel workflow

Determine workflows a given piece of content is participating in

Out-of-the-box Workflows:

• Simple review & approve workflow
  
• Simple adhoc task workflow
  

Administration

'How to' to define your own workflows

Getting started with jPDL

Repository of sample Workflow Definitions

Workflow Definition Language:

• jPDL 3.2 process language for defining workflows (states, transitions, tasks, events, actions, ...)
  
• Timers - V2.1 onwards
  
• Custom process and task variables
  
• Modelling of Tasks
  
• Workflow packages (for routing multiple objects through workflow)
  
• References to Alfresco repository objects (e.g. people, documents, folders)
  
• JavaScript & Beanshell scripting
  
  • Read repository object state
    
  • Base workflow decisions on repository object state
    
  • Perform operations on repository objects (e.g. checkout, checkin, transform)
    
  • Issue Alfresco actions (e.g. send e-mail)
    
• Declarative configuration of Start Workflow and Task dialogs
  
• Localised Workflow definitions
  

Workflow Interfaces:

• Start 'advanced' Workflow Alfresco Action
  
• URL based Task Management (submit reject or approve)
  
• Workflow Interfaces on Share Creating interfaces for workflows via Alfresco Share.
  

Workflow Tools:

• GUI for defining workflows (install)
  
  • Direct deployment of workflow definitions to Alfresco Repository Server
    
• Workflow Console for interactive deployment & debugging of workflows
  

Developer

• Workflow Javascript API 
  
• Workflow Service Java API
  

Infrastructure

Alfresco Workflow Requirements & Design

Workflow on Share

Activiti BPMN Integration

Embedded jBPM 3.2 Business Process Engine

Tutorials

1. Creation of workflow in Alfresco using Activiti step by step
   
2. Alfresco workflow – copy files attached to a folder
   
3. Periodical actions, eg emails