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Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide

You're reading from   Alfresco One 5.x Developer???s Guide Discover what it means to be an expert developer by exploring the latest features available to you in Alfresco One 5.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128163
Length 528 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. The Alfresco Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Alfresco 3. Working with Content Models 4. Handling Content Automatically with Actions, Behaviors, Transformers, and Extractors 5. Customizing Alfresco Share 6. Creating an Angular Application 7. Exposing Content through a RESTful API with Web Scripts 8. Advanced Workflow 9. Amazing Extensions 10. Security

Using the Activiti graphical process designer


One of the nice things about Activiti is that a graphical tool is available as an Eclipse plugin for creating and deploying process definitions, called the ActivitiDesigner.

There are people in the business of marketing workflow tools who love to say things such as "Using the graphical process designer, business analysts can create advanced workflows without writing any code!" Graphical process designers are definitely useful, but be realistic. Code has to be written.

The designer is most useful for quickly designing the process, setting node properties, and connecting nodes. Once that's done, you may have to switch over to the XML to finish out the definition.

The Activiti Designer is freely available from http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#activitiDesigner. It installs as an Eclipse plugin. To install the plugin, click on Help|Install New Software, then use the update site http://activiti.org/designer/update/ and select the Activiti Eclipse BPMN...

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