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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Alfresco Workflow Console


Once started, the workflows execute in the background in the jBPM context. There is a little way to debug and see what is going on around the workflows.

Alfresco has provided a wonderful tool to investigate inside the workflow engine.

You can perform various common tasks using this console window

  • Deploy, undeploy process definitions

  • See all the deployed process definitions

  • See all currently running workflows

  • Start, stop, cancel a workflow

  • See details of a workflow

  • See paths of a workflow

  • See any running task details along with task properties

  • Create, assign process variable values

  • See pending tasks, pooled tasks

In this recipe, we will see how to do some of these actions.

How to do it...

Open the URL http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp, admin access is required for some of the tasks we want to perform here.

The workflow console will appear, waiting to execute your commands.

The default screen renders the help output on how to use this interface...