Managing tasks with the Activiti Explorer
by Irshad Mansuri, Dr. Zakir Laliwala
Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide
- Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing Activiti
- 2. Modeling Using the Activiti Modeler
- Understanding Business Process Modeling
- Understanding the BPM standards
- Installing the Activiti Modeler
- Time for action – Business Process Modeling using the Activiti Modeler
- Time for action – import and export of a model
- Time for action – deploying a model into the Activiti Engine
- Summary
- 3. Designing Your Process Using the Activiti Designer
- 4. Management and Monitoring Using the Activiti Explorer
- An overview of the Activiti Explorer
- A process with the Activiti Explorer
- Time for action – starting a process instance
- Managing tasks with the Activiti Explorer
- Time for action – working with user tasks
- Managing processes with the Activiti Explorer
- Time for action – process management
- Reporting with the Activiti Explorer
- Time for action – reporting using the Activiti Explorer
- Administration using the Activiti Explorer
- Time for action – administration using the Activiti Explorer
- Time for action – changing to a production-ready database
- Time for action – deploying a process using the Activiti Explorer
- Summary
- 5. Development Using the Process Engine
- Understanding the Activiti development environment
- Setting up the Activiti development environment
- Configuring the Activiti Process Engine
- Time for action – configuring a database
- Time for action – the logging configuration
- Time for action – configuring the mail server
- Time for action – running the Activiti Engine
- Summary
- 6. The Activiti ProcessEngine API
- Overview of the APIs and services
- Delving into the process engine
- Time for action – deploying the process
- Time for action – starting a new process instance
- Time for action – querying for user tasks
- Time for action – creating and completing user tasks
- Time for action – suspending a process
- Time for action – working with users
- Time for action – querying historical activities
- Time for action – unit testing and debugging processes
- Summary
- 7. Working with the REST API
- Overview of the Activiti REST API
- Time for action – implementing the REST service
- Time for action – working with Repository APIs as REST
- Time for action – working with processes
- Time for action – working with tasks
- Time for action – working with users
- Time for action – working with management
- Summary
- 8. Integrating Activiti with Third-party Services
- Using the Liferay Portal with Activiti
- Time for action – integrating Liferay with Activiti
- Integrating business rules in Activiti
- Time for action – integrating and implementing business rules with Activiti
- Deploying Activiti as an OSGi bundle
- Time for action – integrating Activiti with Apache Karaf
- Summary
- 9. Implementing Advanced Workflows
- Understanding parallel gateways
- Time for action – implementing a parallel gateway
- Getting started with Sub-Processes
- Time for action – working with BPMN 2.0 Sub-Processes
- Understanding multi-instance processes
- Time for action – implementing a multi-instance process
- Introducing execution and task listeners
- Time for action – implementing execution and task listeners
- Monitoring workflows using BAM and CEP
- Monitoring using Esper
- Time for action – using Esper with Activiti
- Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Index
In the previous section, we started a process. Now, in this section, we will have a look at how to manage a task using the Activiti Explorer.
In the Tasks tab, we have all the information related to a task. As you can see in the previous screenshot, there are various menus within the Tasks tab. The menus are explained as follows:
- Inbox: This menu represents the list of tasks assigned to the user.
- MyTasks: This menu shows the tasks created by the user.
- Queued: This menu displays the list of tasks assigned to a group that the user belongs to. In order to execute a task, the user will have to claim the task from the Queued list.
- Involved: This menu displays the list of available tasks in which the user is involved.
- Archived: This menu represents the list of tasks completed by the user.
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