Alfresco Activiti Workflow Training Course
Course Summary
This course covers Alfresco Activiti Workflows from start to finish, and will enable the design, development, and deployment of custom workflows that meet your business needs.
Duration
2 days.
Objectives
At the end of this course you will:
- Understand workflows
- Know how to define workflows
- Know how to define task models
- Be able to customize Alfresco Share for workflow
- Understand how workflow can interact with content
- Know how to deploy custom workflows
Audience
This course is aimed at developers who have prior knowledge of Alfresco and now want to be able to create and deploy workflows in an Alfresco environment.
Prerequisites
Delegates are expected to understand workflow concepts and have used Alfresco, they should be familiar with java and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Eclipse.
It is desirable and helpful if delegates have been on the Alfresco Fundamentals training course or the Alfresco Essentials training course.
Setup Requirements
In order to run the virtual machine your laptop needs to have some spare capacity. The machine requirements are:
Windows
- Standard x86-compatible or x86-64-compatible processor with a minimum of two cores. 733MHz or faster CPU minimum.
- Minimum 2GB of RAM (4GB RAM recommended).
- 1.7GB free disk space for VMware Player installation and at least 8GB for the Alfresco virtual machine
Macintosh
- Minimum 2GB of RAM (4GB RAM recommended)
- 700MB free disk space for VMware Fusion and at least 8GB for the Alfresco virtual machine
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later; Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Outline
Alfresco Workflow Overview
- What is a workflow
- How end users see workflows
- Administrating workflow
- Developer features
- Workflow architecture
Defining Workflows
- Activiti
- Workflow definitions
- Approaches to defining workflows
- Tasks and gateways
Process Definition
- BPMN
- Variables and process variables
- Assignments
- Decisions
- Listeners
- Multi instance tasks
Task Definition
- The workflow content model
- The task model
- Task types
- Tasks and the user interface
- Predefined tasks and their use
- Deploying the task model
Alfresco Share Client Configuration
- Understanding Share configuration
- Configuring workflow start
- Configuring task dialogs
- Configuring workflow packages
Workflow and the Repository
- Alfresco javascript
- Configuring wokflow for document lifecycle
Training Schedule
| Location | May 2012 | Jun 2012 | Jul 2012 | Aug 2012 |
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| Brussels |
Jun 4 - Jun 5
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| Bruxelles |
Jun 4 - Jun 5
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| Hamburg |
Jun 6 - Jun 7
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| Paris-Reactis |
Jun 19 - Jun 20
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| Stuttgart, Germany |
May 23 - May 24
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Classes in bold are guaranteed to run!
Course Testimonials
The training gave me the basis to develop my own workflows and all the different ways to customize workflows. I feel confident that I can implement Activiti workflows for my company business processes as we go to the next level of our integration of Alfresco CMS.
