Joget Workflow Training – Basic & Advance for v3.1 – Module 10 – Hash Variables

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All That You Need to Know: Automating
Your Processes and Building Applications
Developer: Extending and building plugins.
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Joget Workflow Training
• All That You Need to Know: Automating Your Processes
and Building Applications
• Who is it for? Any business process owner
• Prerequisites:
– Logical understanding on drawing a flowchart
– No software development knowledge required

Outline – Day 1
• Module 1: Introduction
– Introduction to Business Process and Workflow
– Introduction to Joget Workflow
– Overview of Joget Workflow v3 Architecture
• Module 2: Setting up Joget Workflow
– Requirements
– Installation
– Overview of User Management
• Module 3: Building your first Process-driven Application
– Business Process Design
– Designing Your First Workflow with Workflow Designer
– Running Your First Automated Process

Outline – Day 1
• Module 4: Process Monitoring
– Administration of Process Instances in Joget
• Module 5: Creating your first Forms
– Creating your First Forms using Joget Form Builder
– Understanding the relationship between Forms and Process
Activities

Outline – Day 2
• Module 6: Using the Email Tool
– Implementing Email Tool Plugin on your Process Tool.
• Module 7: Creating Datalist and Userview
– Creating a Listing of submitted Form data.
– Creating a User Interface (UI) for end-user access.
• Module 8: Participant Mapping and Permission
Control
– Defining Process Participant Mapping on your Process
– Enforcing Permission Control on your App

Outline – Day 3
• Module 9: SLA and Deadlines
– Service Level Agreement implementation on Workflow Process.
– Creating Email Reminder on Workflow Process using Deadline
implementation.
• Module 10: Hash Variables
– Dynamically populate Form fields, Email plugin.
– Using Hash Variable
• Module 11: A Revision - Building a Support
Ticketing System

Module 10
Hash Variables

What is Hash Variable?
• Hash Variable != Workflow Variable
• Hash Variable is a special hash-escaped keyword that can be
used in
– Form Builder
– Datalist Builder
– Userview Builder
– Supported plugin configuration properties
– Activity name in Workflow Designer
– External Form URL when mapping an activity to an external form
to return value of some useful runtime variables from
Workflow Engine

Ever Wonder…
• How to display requestor’s full name in a form?

Ever Wonder…
• How to display requestor’s full name in task / activity
name?

Using #performer Hash Variables
#performer.facilities_request.username#

Using #performer Hash Variables in
Form Builder
Hash Variables can be used in
Form Title, Section Title, Form
Element

Workflow Designer

Plugin Configuration
In Email Plugin, Hash Variables
are supported in From, To
(specific email address), CC,
Subject and Message fields.

Using #form Hash Variables in
Plugin Configuration
#form.facities_request.details#

Using #variable Hash Variable
• To get the value of a workflow variable:
– #variable.variableName#
Example:
#variable.status#

Using #date Hash Variables
• To get date time according to a specified format:
– #date.javaSimpleDateFormat# (refer to
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/Simpl
eDateFormat.html for SimpleDateFormat)
– #date.[DAY/MONTH/YEAR][+/-
]IntegerValue.javaSimpleDateFormat#

• Example: #date.EEE, d MMM yyyy h:mm:ss a#
• Sample Output: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:27:26 AM
Java SimpleDateFormat

• Example: #date.DAY+7.EEE, d MMM yyyy h:mm:ss a#
• Sample Output: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:27:26 AM
Java SimpleDateFormat+7 days

• Example: #date.MONTH-2.EEE, d MMM yyyy h:mm:ss a#
• Sample Output: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:27:26 AM
Java SimpleDateFormat-2 months

• Example: #date.YEAR+1.EEE, d MMM yyyy h:mm:ss a#
• Sample Output: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:27:26 AM
Java SimpleDateFormat+1 year

Using #user Hash Variables
• To get user information based on the username:
– #user.username.id#
– #user.username.username#
– #user.username.firstName#
– #user.username.lastName#
– #user.username.email#
– #user.username.active#
– #user.username.timeZone#
Example:
#user.admin.email#

Hash variables supported
• Performer
• Internationalization support on application
• Request Parameters
• Application level environment variable
• Current User
• Assignment
• Form
• Workflow Variable
• Date
• User

• Performer
– To get user information of the performer of an activity.
• #performer.activityDefId.id#,
• #performer.activityDefId.username#,
• #performer.activityDefId.firstName#,
• #performer.activityDefId.lastName#,
• #performer.activityDefId.email#,
• #performer.activityDefId.active#,
• #performer.activityDefId.timeZone#

• Internationalization support on application
– Support language localization on application level.
• #i18n.keyName#

• Request Parameters
– For accessing request parameters.
• #requestParam.parameterName#

• Application level environment variable
– Application level environment variable.
• #envVariable.keyName#

• Current User
– Retrieve currently logged in user information.
• #currentUser.id#,
• #currentUser.username#,
• #currentUser.firstName#,
• #currentUser.lastName#,
• #currentUser.email#,
• #currentUser.active#,
• #currentUser.timeZone#

• Assignment
– To get workflow activity information of the current assignment.
• #assignment.processId#,
• #assignment.processDefId#,
• #assignment.processName#,
• #assignment.processName#,
• #assignment.processVersion#,
• #assignment.processRequesterId#,
• #assignment.description#,
• #assignment.activityId#,
• #assignment.activityName#,
• #assignment.activityDefId#,
• #assignment.assigneeId#

• Form
– To get data from form table.
– #form.formDataTableName.fieldId#
– For examples:
• #form.registration.registeredDate#
• #form.registration.issuedDate#

• Workflow Variable
– To get the value of a workflow variable.
• #variable.variableName#

• Date
– To get date time according to a specified format.
– For examples:
• #date.h:mm a# // 12:08 PM #date.EEE, d MMM yyyy h:mm:ss a# // Wed,
4 Jul 2009 12:08:56 PM

• User
– To get user information based on username.
• #user.username.id#
• #user.username.username#
• #user.username.firstName#
• #user.username.lastName#
• #user.username.email#
• #user.username.active#
• #user.username.timeZone#

Exercise
1. In “Submit Leave” form, prepopulate the applicant’s
name using hash variable.
2. In “Send Rejected Email Notification” Email Tool,
compose the message as follow using hash variable.
Dear [applicant name],
Your application has been [status] due to the following reason:-
[rejected reason]
Thank you.

Exercise
3. In Inbox, instead of just showing “Approve Leave”,
include the applicant’s name to the example as follow:-

Exercise
4. Create a new listing that will only show applications
submitted by the logged in user.
– Create a new Datalist
• Add filter criteria in “Extra Filter Condition”.
– Eg. ( e.customProperties.name = ‘Cat’ )
– Replace ‘Cat’ with the appropriate Hash Variable
– Add the created list into the existing Userview

Exercise
5. Make use of Environment Variable to store commonly
used settings, e.g. Email configuration used in Email Tool
plugin.

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