'[Activity] Explorer is meant as a demo' ??

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allen_joslin

I'm a little confused…

I had understood that Alfresco Enterprise included Activiti as a built in tool, so I figured to combine the two community versions into something that would function as one (believing that there would still be rough edges.)

So I downloaded Activiti Community and spent the time to get it up and running, and now that it's up on the same server as my Alfresco Community I then try to get some processes modeled and working in Alfresco.  So I continue to read through the UM and find this at the head of section 13:

        "Activiti Explorer is a web application that is included when you download Activiti from the Activiti website. The purpose of Explorer is not a finished, end-user ready application, but rather to exercise and show the functionality of Activiti. As such, Explorer is meant as a demo, or maybe inspiration for people using Activiti in their own applications."

So I move on and install the Activiti extension in Eclipse and have found the Jeff Potts tutorial on custom workflows and I read all the way through that and he doesn't mention activiti-explorer at all. 

So why, other than not reading the whole user manual carefully first, did I install Activity-Explorer?  And if only for that reason, why is the true explanation for the explorer buried down in section 13 of the manual?

Apologies for all that the pissin' & moanin' – if it was wasted time, then so be it –

http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/workflow/tutorial/tutorial.html

fcorti

Hi Allen,

I'm sorry you feel like you "wasted your time" but probably your learnt a lot about Alfresco ECM and Activiti BPM in both Enterprise Editions and Community Editions.
My thought is that the two solutions (four if we consider the EE and CE editions) are complex, powerful and integrated solutions.

This is to say that is not easy to have a clear picture of the features in a document only without an initial background.

Of course, we are all agree that tutorials and getting started documentation could be better...

If you are moving your first steps into the two solutions, welcome, and feel free to ask for further details in this portal.

There is a community of skilled developers available to give you a suggestion (me included).