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How to edit alfresco content through Activiti BPM

gets_sanket_pat

I want to use Activiti to edit the text content and it's metadata which is present in alfresco repository/alfresco share. What is the best way to do it?

My approach is kind of goes this way. But I feel I am making it complicated.

1. Create the form in activiti to choose the alfresco share document

2. get the node reference from the chosen path

3. call the alfresco webscript endpoint task which can get the JSON response using this GET method

e.g. GET /alfresco/service/api/metadata?nodeRef=workspace://SpacesStore/1b10bd64-e22f-458c-8632-468b53174266

4. DO the response mapping and get all the properties that the file is having in variables

5. load that in the form in which user can edit.

6. complete the editing process by publishing the same document.

Do you have any other approach ? This is kind of a lot of work for a simple editing the document.

Activiti version 1.6.0

Alfresco 5.0.2

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cjose

Hello Sanket,

Could you please provide a little bit more information, eg: use case. If you are trying to edit a file, why are your doing it using Activiti? Can you not do it using the repo UI? Or is this edit just a part of a bigger workflow? Also, if you are looking for updating office docs, there is office integration in Alfresco Process Services which allow you to edit a document through the browser.

Cheers,

Ciju

gets_sanket_pat

Yes. I can do that using Repo UI. But it is part of a bigger workflow. Business users are having difficulties understanding the repo UI. I know it is a simple from our perspective but this is the task I have to do it.

and my content will be some txt files. Not the office documents. I already integrated office documents editing capabilities.

Let me know if there is better solution available to edit the content.

cjose

Ok, understood. Depending on the requirement it can be done a few different ways.

Do you want to do all this in one form? For example: when you select the file, do you want to get all the details of the file populated on the same form? If you want to do everything in one form and assuming that you are using the OOTB APS UI, you may want to get the details of the selected file (using the node API - Alfresco Content Services REST API Explorer ) using javascript extensions in APS (Start and task form customization | Alfresco Documentation) upon file upload and populate the other fields in the form. Updates to the properties can then be done using the "Update Alfresco Properties" component in APS. If you are using ADF to build the UI, the custom logic should be done using the ADF way.

If you want to do it in two steps (selection of file by a user and update by another user in another task) , you can combine the "Retrieve Alfresco Properties", then edit the variables via a user task form, then "Update Alfresco Properties"

Hope this helps.

Ciju

gets_sanket_pat

Ok. I am working with alfresco 5.0.2. So the node REST API will not work.

I did exactly the same thing you mentioned to update the Alfresco properties. I am able to update the properties using perfectly fine.

But, I am not able to get the path of the file while choosing the file. Can you tell me which form properties should I use and how? you told me about APS. what is that ? Please give me details.

Right now I am stuck at getting the path of the file from the upload file.

I need that in a string variable like "Sites/mySite/documentlibrary/myfolder/file.txt"

So that I can get the nodeRef and open the content using this API and make an update. and publish it to alfresco.

All the following task is completed. I am not able to get the file path from the file chooser.

Thanks