Deepak Paul 152e7805bc [ADF-1143] [TaskList] - Not able to start a task when changing the assignee from the 'Start Task' form (#2164)
* [ADF-1143] [TaskList] - Not able to start a task when changing the assignee from the 'Start Task' form

* Create task has been split into three diffrent service calls to replicate the ecxact behaviour of APS

* Current API call sequence is create-task -> attach-form -> assign-user

* Added a new service assign task

* Modified tests according to the API calls

* [ADF-1143] [TaskList] - Not able to start a task when changing the assignee from the 'Start Task' form

* Added responsive behaviour for APIs

* [ADF-1143] [TaskList] - Not able to start a task when changing the assignee from the 'Start Task' form

*Code refactoring
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APS Task List Component

Displays lists of process instances both active and completed, using any defined process filter, and render details of any chosen instance.

Prerequisites

Before you start using this development framework, make sure you have installed all required software and done all the necessary configuration prerequisites.

If you plan using this component with projects generated by Angular CLI, please refer to the following article: Using ADF with Angular CLI

Install

npm install ng2-activiti-tasklist

Activiti Task List

This component renders a list containing all the tasks matched by the parameters specified.

<adf-tasklist 
    [appId]="'1'" 
    [state]="'open'" 
    [assignment]="'assignee'">
</adf-tasklist>

You can also use HTML-based schema declaration like shown below:

<adf-tasklist ...>
    <data-columns>
        <data-column key="name" title="NAME" class="full-width name-column"></data-column>
        <data-column key="created" title="Created" class="hidden"></data-column>
    </data-columns>
</adf-tasklist>

DataColumn Properties

Here's the list of available properties you can define for a Data Column definition.

Name Type Default Description
key string Data source key, can be either column/property key like title or property path like createdBy.name
type string (text|image|date) text Value type
format string Value format (if supported by components), for example format of the date
sortable boolean true Toggles ability to sort by this column, for example by clicking the column header
title string Display title of the column, typically used for column headers
template TemplateRef Custom column template
sr-title string Screen reader title, used for accessibility purposes
class string Additional CSS class to be applied to column (header and cells)

Events

Name Description
onSuccess Raised when the task list is loaded
rowClick Raised when the task in the list is clicked

Properties

Name Type Default Description
appId string The id of the app.
processDefinitionKey string The processDefinitionKey of the process.
assignment string The assignment of the process.
    Possible values are:
  • assignee : where the current user is the assignee
  • candidate: where the current user is a task candidate
  • group_x: where the task is assigned to a group where the current user is a member of.
  • no value: where the current user is involved
state string Define state of the processes. Possible values are: completed, active
hasIcon boolean true Toggle the icon on the left .
landingTaskId string Define which task id should be selected after the reloading. If the task id doesn't exist or nothing is passed it will select the first task
sort string Define the sort of the processes. Possible values are : created-desc, created-asc, due-desc, due-asc
data DataTableAdapter JSON object that represent the number and the type of the columns that you want show

Example:

[
 {"type": "text", "key": "id", "title": "Id"},
 {"type": "text", "key": "name", "title": "Name", "cssClass": "full-width name-column", "sortable": true},
 {"type": "text", "key": "formKey", "title": "Form Key", "sortable": true},
 {"type": "text", "key": "created", "title": "Created", "sortable": true}
]

Activiti Task Details

The component shows the details of the task id passed in input

<adf-task-details 
    [taskId]="taskId">
</adf-task-details>

Properties

Name Type Default Description
taskId string (required) The id of the task details that we are asking for.
showNextTask boolean true Automatically render the next one, when the task is completed.
showFormTitle boolean true Toggle rendering of the form title.
readOnlyForm boolean false Toggle readonly state of the form. Enforces all form widgets render readonly if enabled.
showFormRefreshButton boolean true Toggle rendering of the Refresh button.
showFormSaveButton boolean true Toggle rendering of the Save outcome button.
showFormCompleteButton boolean true Toggle rendering of the Form Complete outcome button
peopleIconImageUrl string Define a custom people icon image
showHeader boolean true Toggle task details Header component
showHeaderContent boolean true Toggle collapsed/expanded state of the Header component
showInvolvePeople boolean true Toggle Involve People feature for Header component
showComments boolean true Toggle Comments feature for Header component
showChecklist boolean true Toggle Checklist feature for Header component

Events

Name Description
formLoaded Raised when form is loaded or reloaded.
formSaved Raised when form is submitted with Save or custom outcomes.
formCompleted Raised when form is submitted with Complete outcome.
taskCreated Raised when a checklist task is created.
executeOutcome Raised when any outcome is executed, default behaviour can be prevented via event.preventDefault()
onError Raised at any error

Custom 'empty Activiti Task Details' template

By default the Activiti Task Details provides the following message for the empty task details:

No Tasks

This can be changed by adding the following custom html template:

<adf-task-details [taskId]="taskId">
    <no-task-details-template>
        <template>
             <h1>Sorry, no tasks here</h1>
             <img src="example.jpg">
        </template>
    </no-task-details-template>
</adf-task-details>    

Note that can put any HTML content as part of the template, including other Angular components.

Activiti Apps Component

The component shows all the available apps.

<adf-apps 
    [layoutType]="'GRID'">
</adf-apps>

Properties

Name Type Description
layoutType string (required) Define the layout of the apps. There are two possible values: GRID or LIST.
filtersAppId Object Provide a way to filter the apps to show.

Events

Name Description
appClick Raised when an app entry is clicked

How filter the activiti apps

If you want to show some specific apps you can specify them through the filtersAppId parameters

<adf-apps 
    [filtersAppId]="'[
        {defaultAppId: 'tasks'}, 
        {deploymentId: '15037'}, 
        {name : 'my app name'}]'">
</adf-apps>

In this specific case only the Tasks app, the app with deploymentId 15037 and the app with "my app name" will be showed how-filter-apps

You can use inside the filter one of the following property

{ 
    "defaultAppId": "string", 
    "deploymentId": "string", 
    "name": "string", 
    "id": "number", 
    "modelId": "number",
    "tenantId": "number"
}

Activiti Filter

The component shows all the available filters.

<adf-filters></adf-filters>

Properties

Name Type Description
filterParam FilterParamsModel The params to filter the task filter. If there is no match the default one (first filter of the list) is selected
appId string Display filters available to the current user for the application with the specified ID.
appName string Display filters available to the current user for the application with the specified name.
hasIcon boolean Toggle to show or not the filter's icon.

If both appId and appName are specified then appName will take precedence and appId will be ignored.

Events

Name Description
filterClick Raised when the filter in the list is clicked
onSuccess Raised when the list is loaded
onError Raised if there is an error during the loading

How filter the activiti task filters

<adf-filters 
   [filterParam]="{name:'My tasks'}">
</adf-filters>

You can use inside the filterParam one of the following property.

FilterParamsModel

{
    "id": "number",
    "name": "string",
    "index": "number"
}
Name Type Description
id string The id of the task filter
name string The name of the task filter, lowercase is checked
index string The zero-based position of the filter in the array.

How to create an accordion menu with the task filter

You can create an accordion menu using the AccordionComponent that wrap the activiti task filter. The AccordionComponent is exposed by the alfresco-core.

<adf-accordion>
    <adf-accordion-group [heading]="'Tasks'" [isSelected]="true" [headingIcon]="'assignment'">
        <adf-filters
            [appId]="appId"
            [hasIcon]="false"
            (filterClick)="onTaskFilterClick($event)"
            (onSuccess)="onSuccessTaskFilterList($event)"
            #activitifilter>
        </adf-filters>
    </adf-accordion-group>
</adf-accordion>

how-create-accordion-menu

Activiti Checklist Component

The component shows the checklist task functionality.

<adf-checklist 
    [readOnly]="false" 
    [taskId]="taskId" 
    [assignee]="taskAssignee.id" 
</adf-checklist>

Properties

Name Type Description
taskId string (required) The id of the parent task which sub tasks are attached on.
readOnlyForm boolean Toggle readonly state of the form. Enforces all form widgets render readonly if enabled.
assignee string (required) The assignee id where the subtasks are assigned to.

Task Attachment List Component

This component displays attached documents on a specified task

<adf-task-attachment-list 
    [taskId]="YOUR_TASK_ID" 
    (attachmentClick)="YOUR_HANDLER">
</adf-task-attachment-list>

task-attachment-list-sample

Properties

Name Type Description
taskId string (required): The ID of the task to display

Events

Name Description
attachmentClick Raised when the attachment double clicked or selected view option from context menu by the user from within the component and return a Blob obj of the object clicker
success Raised when the attachment list fetch all the attach and return a list of attachments
error Raised when the attachment list is not able to fetch the attachments for example network error

Create Task Attachment Component

This component displays Upload Component(Drag and Click) to upload the attachment to a specified task

<adf-create-task-attachment 
    [taskId]="YOUR_TASK_ID" 
    (error)="YOUR_CREATE_ATTACHMENT_ERROR_HANDLER"
    (success)="YOUR_CREATE_ATTACHMENT_SUCCESS_HANDLER">
</adf-create-task-attachment>

task-create-attachment

Properties

Name Type Description
taskId string (required): The numeric ID of the task to display

Events

Name Description
error Raised when the error occurred while creating/uploading the attachment by the user from within the component
success Raised when the attachment created/uploaded successfully from within the component

Activiti Task Header

The component shows all the information related to a task. The purpose of the component is to populate the local variable called properties (array of CardViewModel), with all the information that we want to display.

<adf-task-header
    [taskDetails]="taskDetails">
</adf-task-header>

Properties

Name Type Default Description
taskDetails TaskDetailsModel (required) The task details related to the task.
formName string The name of the form.

adf-task-header

Events

Name Description
claim Raised when the task is claimed.

TaskDetailsModel

{ 
    "id": "string", 
    "assignee": "User", 
    "dueDate": "data", 
    "endDate": "string", 
    "description": "string"
}

Task People Component

This component displays involved users to a specified task

<adf-people 
    [people]="YOUR_INVOLVED_PEOPLE_LIST" 
    [taskId]="YOUR_TASK_ID"
    [readOnly]="YOUR_READ_ONLY_FLAG">
</adf-people>

activiti-people

Properties

Name Type Description
people User[] The array of User object to display
taskId string The numeric ID of the task
readOnly boolean The boolean flag

Events

No Events

ADF Comments Component

This component displays comments entered by involved users to a specified task. It also allows an involved user to add his/her comment to the task.

<adf-comments
    [taskId]="YOUR_TASK_ID"
    [readOnly]="YOUR_READ_ONLY_FLAG">
</adf-comments>

adf-comments

Properties

Name Type Description
taskId string The numeric ID of the task
readOnly boolean The boolean flag

Events

Name Description
error Raised when an error occurs while displaying/adding a comment

Start Task Component

This component Creates/Starts new task for the specified app

<adf-start-task
    [appId]="YOUR_APP_ID">
</adf-start-task>

adf-start-task

Properties

Name Type Description
appId string (required): The id of the app.

Events

Name Description
success Raised when the task is successfully created
cancel Raised when the cancel button is pressed by the user
error Raised if there is an error during task creation

Build from sources

You can build component from sources with the following commands:

npm install

npm run build

The build task rebuilds all the code, runs tslint, license checks and other quality check tools before performing unit testing.

NPM scripts

Command Description
npm run build Build component
npm run test Run unit tests in the console
npm run test-browser Run unit tests in the browser
npm run coverage Run unit tests and display code coverage report

Demo

Please check the demo folder for a demo project

cd demo
npm install
npm start

License

Apache Version 2.0