Workflow - swimlanes broken?

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kbryd

Hello

I am trying to setup simple workflow, I have followed documentation but still I am unable to do it right…My aim is to create a simple approval process with 3 steps:

* Reception of document
* Description of document
* Approval of document

Reception should be executed by user from group Office, and the remaining two steps by someone from the group Accounting, so I have created these two groups 'office' and 'accounting'.
The process itself was created in Eclipse, and here is it's source code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<process-definition 
  xmlns="urn:jbpm.org:jpdl-3.2"
  name="Approval">

       <swimlane name="office">
           <assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment">
      <pooledactors>#{people.getGroup('GROUP_office')}</pooledactors>
           </assignment>
       </swimlane>

       <swimlane name="accountant">
           <assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment">
      <pooledactors>#{people.getGroup('GROUP_accounting')}</pooledactors>
           </assignment>
       </swimlane>

   <start-state name="start">
         <task name="kb:start" swimlane="office">
      </task>
      <transition name="Accept" to="Reception"></transition>
   </start-state>

        <task-node name="Reception">
      <task name="kb:reception" swimlane="office">
      </task>
      <transition name="Describe" to="Description"></transition>
   </task-node>
   
   <task-node name="Description">
      <task name="kb:description" swimlane="accountant">
      </task>
      <transition name="Approve" to="Approval"></transition>
   </task-node>

   <task-node name="Approval">
      <task name="kb:approval" swimlane="accountant" />
      <transition name="Approve" to="end"></transition>
   </task-node>

   <end-state name="end"></end-state>
</process-definition>
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Nothing fancy…And now, when I start it, Alfresco asks me for the Workflow Assignee, who's that person? I have defined all swimlanes in the code, so I don't understand why I am asked for that Workflow Assignee, and what's important, which tasks will be executed by that person?
Second issue is that, when I start that process from the 'admin' account then I can see the first task kb:reception in my inbox and when I approve it it simply disappears from ALL users' inboxes (it should be routed to users from the 'office' group but it isn't). When I use workflow console to debug it I see that the workflow token is at the Description node but I can't see it in inbox…

definition: jbpm$47 , name: Approval , version: 33
workflow: jbpm$45 , active: true
path: jbpm$45-@ , node: Description
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path: path
properties: 19
 {}companyhome = workspace://SpacesStore/8c483d66-54f4-4553-aad9-1198ef4c9cd4
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}percentComplete = 0
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}assignee = workspace://SpacesStore/7ef8f373-b11d-46e2-9edb-25535a4d3cff
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}outcome = Describe
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}context = workspace://SpacesStore/8c483d66-54f4-4553-aad9-1198ef4c9cd4
 {}workflowinstanceid = jbpm$45
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}workflowDescription = null
 {http://www.meta.com/mds.model/1.0}**** = aaaa
 {http://www.meta.com/mds.model/1.0}number = aaa
 {}initiator = workspace://SpacesStore/7ef8f373-b11d-46e2-9edb-25535a4d3cff
 {}cancelled = false
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}status = Completed
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}package = workspace://SpacesStore/42621a58-607f-4f63-a5b6-18bcf68cfd77
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}workflowPriority = 2
 {http://www.meta.com/mds.model/1.0}deliverer_name = 
 {}initiatorhome = workspace://SpacesStore/8c483d66-54f4-4553-aad9-1198ef4c9cd4
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}packageActionGroup = add_package_item_actions
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}packageItemActionGroup = start_package_item_actions
 {http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}workflowDueDate = null

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The workspace://SpacesStore/7ef8f373-b11d-46e2-9edb-25535a4d3cff points to the admin account, so it looks like the task is still assigned to the admin account…

Can someone explain it to me?

Thanks in advance.

dhalupa

Have you configured property sheet components for your custom tasks?

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Config_Service#Property_Sheet_Configuration

Kind regards,

Denis