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Alfresco Developer Guide

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Alfresco Developer Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco Developer Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Wiring a Process to the Alfresco UI


So far you've learned the definition of workflow, specifics around the jBPM engine, and how to deploy processes. But the discussion up to this point hasn't been specific to Alfresco. In Alfresco, web client users need to:

  • Start workflows

  • Add one or more pieces of content to a workflow ("Approve this piece of web content", for example)

  • Assign tasks to users and/or groups, and work with the tasks assigned to them

  • Provide process-specific metadata for a specific workflow such as due dates, priority, special processing instructions, or any other custom metadata you can think of

JBoss jBPM is just an engine—it is up to the application embedding the engine to expose the capabilities of the engine to the user interface. Alfresco's already done that work for you. Figuring out how to wire your custom workflows into the Alfresco web client UI is just a matter of following Alfresco's framework.

Alfresco uses the same mechanism to model workflow process data and the corresponding...