On 24 May 2007, at 16:08, Julien Anguenot wrote: Hi Craig,
Craig Pugsley wrote: We've created a new document type in Nuxeo and, with some excellent help from the people on this list, are now able to create new documents in this new document type.
Our next mission with Nuxeo is to try and workflow these documents using Nuxeo's excellent workflow facilities. We know they're excellent, as we can create a 'Note' document (one of the default types) and put that through a workflow process.
How would we go about enabling workflow for the new document type we've just created?
Unfortunately, as far as we can see, we don't have much in the way of documentation to help us understand how to enable workflow on our document type. The closest seems to be this:
After some random looking through the code base, we have found a 'nxworkflow-document-rules-contrib.xml' in the platform/nuxeo-platform-webapp-core project that seems to be where the 'Note' document type's workflow is defined.
We've created a local copy of this in our sample project and removed all but one of the doc type declarations, substituting the last one for our document type. Needless to say this didn't work.
Did you think about referencing your new xml descriptor that contains the workflow rules in the MANIFEST.MF of your bundle ?
As well, if you did a copy paste of an existing workflow rule did you think about changing the component name (name="") in the xml descriptor ?
Do not hesitate if you got more questions.
Cheers,
J.
Hi there. Yes, I had guessed I had to do these things. We've created a 'nxworkflow-document-rules-contrib.xml' file in the OSGI-INF folder in the sample project, and have added a reference to this in the MANIFEST.MF:
nxworkflow-document-rules-contrib.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <component name="com.policymatter.workflow.nuxeo.workflowdocrules"> <documentation> </documentation> <require>org.nuxeo.ecm.platform.workflow.document.service.WorkflowRulesService</require> <extension target="org.nuxeo.ecm.platform.workflow.document.service.WorkflowRulesService" point="docTypeRule"> <documentation> Workflow document types rules contribution for <i>PolicyMatter</i> document type. <p/> Defines allowed workflows for the <i>PolicyMatter</i> document type </documentation> <docTypeRule docType="Policy"> <workflowDefinition>document_review_parallel</workflowDefinition> <workflowDefinition>document_review_serial</workflowDefinition> <workflowDefinition>document_review_approbation</workflowDefinition> </docTypeRule> </extension> </component>
MANIFEST.MF:
Manifest-Version: 1.0 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 1 Bundle-Name: Nuxeo Sample project Bundle-SymbolicName: org.nuxeo.project.sample;singleton:=true Bundle-Version: 1.0.0 Bundle-Vendor: Nuxeo Provide-Package: org.nuxeo.project.sample Require-Bundle: org.nuxeo.runtime, org.nuxeo.ecm.core.api, org.nuxeo.ecm.core, org.nuxeo.ecm.webapp.core, Nuxeo-Component: OSGI-INF/core-types-contrib.xml, OSGI-INF/ecm-types-contrib.xml, OSGI-INF/lifecycle-contrib.xml, OSGI-INF/event-listener-contrib.xml, OSGI-INF/directories-contrib.xml, OSGI-INF/nxworkflow-document-rules-contrib.xml, OSGI-INF/theme-contrib.xml
Doing this was just pure guesswork on my part, as I have no idea what is required to enable workflow for this new document type. Therefore, there are probably other areas of Nuxeo that need to be told that we're now wanting to workflow this new document type. However, I can't seem to find any documentation on what is required to make this happen.
Interestingly, I do get this exception when I create a new document with our new document type:
org.nuxeo.ecm.core.api.ClientException: Unable to get allowed state transitions for document : 589f7a33-f6a1-4e2e-8aaa-536bcebb8d79 at org.nuxeo.ecm.core.api.AbstractSession.getAllowedStateTransitions(AbstractSession.java:1839)
...and:
10:29:44,201 INFO [LifeCycleServiceImpl] No life cycle associate to document type : ComplexType: Policy; [] 10:29:44,201 INFO [LifeCycleServiceImpl] No life cycle manager found for document type = ComplexType: Policy; [] check out your configuration.
...which suggests to me that there is somewhere else that I need to define a 'life cycle manager' to handle this new document type.
Is this documented anywhere and, if not, can someone suggest a list of config elements that I should look at and amend (over and above the 'nxworkflow-document-rules-contrib.xml' file)?
Thanks for your help Craig Pugsley Technical Consultant
PolicyMatter Solutions for compliance and risk management
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