Using the Alfresco Workflow Console

Once started, the workflows execute in the background in the jBPM context. There is a little way to debug and see what is going on around the workflows.

Alfresco has provided a wonderful tool to investigate inside the workflow engine.

You can perform various common tasks using this console window

• Deploy, undeploy process definitions

• See all the deployed process definitions

• See all currently running workflows

• Start, stop, cancel a workflow

• See details of a workflow

• See paths of a workflow

• See any running task details along with task properties

• Create, assign process variable values

• See pending tasks, pooled tasks

In this recipe, we will see how to do some of these actions.

How to do it...

Open the URL http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp, admin access is required for some of the tasks we want to perform here.

The workflow console will appear, waiting to execute your commands.

The default screen renders the help output on how to use this interface...