Alfresco: how to change start task name of custom workflow?

Question

I want workflow details page to show a descriptive name for the start task instead of the form id in History table. The name attribute of userTasks works fine, but I can't get it working on my startEvent. As seen below:

<startEvent id="start" name="Início" activiti:initiator="initiatorUserName"
                activiti:formKey="workflowdocumentrequest:start">

<userTask id="userTask1" name="Revisão da Requisição de Documento Físico"
              activiti:assignee="${workflowdocumentrequest_destination.properties.userName}"
              activiti:formKey="workflowdocumentrequest:review">

What do I have to do?

Answer 1

Well, if you're developing a custom advanced workflow in Alfresco using Activiti you should check out this Jeff Pots guide. Other than that, in order to use a customised string for your start event you should be familiar with content modeling and i18n properties files. So for your startEvent you should have a specific workflow model declaring the workflowdocumentrequest:start type, something similar to this:

<type name="workflowdocumentrequest:start">
    <parent>bpm:startTask</parent>
 ...
</type>

For that workflow content model you should have a specific i18n file, in messages folder called workflowdocumentrequestWorkflow.properties. There you should have something like this: workflowdocumentrequestWorkflow_workflowmodel.type.workflowdocumentrequestWorkflow_start.title=Início

The workflowdocumentrequestWorkflow_workflowmodel part is your namespacePrefixShortname_yourWorkflowModelName (the one you have used at the beginning of your workflow content model xml file <model name="workflowdocumentrequestWorkflow:workflowmodel xmlns="http://www.alfresco.org/model/dictionary/1.0">. The .type. is obviously your custom type for the start event task. The workflowdocumentrequestWorkflow_start is your type's name in your xml. Activiti engine and i18n file hase to be written with _ instead of :.

Hope it helps. Cheers