Alfresco Processes - Manager role?

upforsin

Hello,

We have group "Warehouse" and user who is a Warehouse Manager.  Is it possible for Manager to see all tasks currently assigned to Warehouse group?

It would be also nice if Manger could see those tasks and could change assigned user

Situation 1:

there is a user "xyz" who belongs to "Warehouse" group. All processes are assigned to him directly. He goes on vacation. Now manager has to assign his tasks to another user.

Situation 2:

There is a user "xyz", he belongs to "Warehouse" group and he is lazy so he has a lot of not done tasks. Is it possible for Manager to see that?

Is there any solution in Alfresco for those situations?

Vic

Investigate the following folder in Share source code:

site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\workflow

There are few places of interest \filters subfolder, workflow-list.get.config.xml, task-list.get.config.xml.

As you can see all filters are nothing but web-scripts that prepare model for UI. Therefore to include or exclude some filter in the model you'll have to modify corresponding JS controller. I.e. I add new filter in all.get.config.xml:

<config>
   <filters>
      <filter id="workflows" data="active"    label="link.workflows.active"/>
      <filter id="workflows" data="completed" label="link.workflows.completed"/>
      <filter id="workflows" data="all"       label="link.workflows.all"/>
   </filters>
</config>

Then modify JS controller all.get.js:

<import resource="classpath:alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/workflow/filter/filter.lib.js">
model.filters = [];

var filters = getFilters();

for each(var filter in filters) {
    if (filter.data == "all") {
        if (user.isAdmin) {
            model.filters.push(filter);
        }
    } else {
        model.filters.push(filter);
    }
}

 Thus, my new "all" filter will get into the model and appear on the UI only if currently logged in user is an admin.

Here "user" is one of the root JS objects in Surf.

As a last step modify workflow-list.get.config.xml, task-list.get.config.xml. Add 

<filter id="workflows"     data="all"          parameters="all=true"/>

to both files to support conversion of new filter to request parameter.

Oh, and one more thing modify resource bundle all.get.properties - add new property for new filter label:

link.workflows.all=Show all

Thats how I implemented it in Share. Hope I didn't forget anything.