Customizing Magnolia Workflow
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Presenters: Steven McDermott, Associate Software Engineer, VSP Global Rich Gange, Support Engineer and Trainer, Magnolia Vision Service Plan Global implemented Magnolia for one of their business units, Eyefinity. Specific workflow was part of the requirements. Eyefinity was faced with the need to customize the out-of-the-box Magnolia "four-eye" editorial content workflow. This workflow provides two steps in its approval process, while Eyefinity needed a three step or “six-eye" implementation. Eyefinity also needed some custom functionality requiring emails to be sent to appropriate users in groups associated with each step of the workflow approval process. In this presentation, Steven McDermott of VSP Global and Rich Gange of Magnolia will review their approach in modifying the out-of-the box workflow, and the resulting customized “product".
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Customizing Magnolia Workflow
- 1. Customizing! Magnolia! Workflow Richard Gange! Support Engineer! Magnolia Americas! ! Steven McDermott! GTS - Magnolia Enterprise Support! VSP Global
- 2. RICH GANGE MAGNOLIA SUPPORT ENGINEER
- 3. MAGNOLIA 4.5 OpenWFE as workflow engine OpenWFE discontinued Now what?
- 4. MAGNOLIA 5.0 - 5.2.3 Workflow Module based on jBPM 5 Rudimentary Integration Incremental Fixes
- 5. MAGNOLIA 5.2.4 - 5.3.X Workflow Module based on jBPM 6 Magnolia 5.2.4 bundled w/ workflow 5.3.1 Rewritten Persistence / Configuration Simplified
- 6. WORKFLOW MODULE 2 Magnolia Modules Workflow: engine-agnostic integration module Workflow jBPM: jBPM integration module
- 7. WORKFLOW OUT-OF-THE-BOX “four-eye” content approval workflow Implemented in the pages app Can easily be configured on any content app
- 8. CUSTOM WORKFLOW More actors Custom work items Parallel activities
- 9. WHAT IS JBPM? Business analysts & developers bridge Traditional BPM engines have limited focus Dual focus
- 10. WHAT DOES JBPM DO? Allows you to model your business goals BPMN 2.0 specification 3 core elements: events, activities, & gateways
- 11. GRAPHICAL MODELING TOOL Allows creation and editing of BPMN diagrams Eclipse plugin Web based version also available
- 13. TASKS Fills the gap with human interaction Register custom tasks in your module Have a clear status and an assignee
- 14. WORK ITEMS A unit of work that needs to be executed Domain-specific (custom work items) Executed by the work item handler
- 15. WORK ITEM HANDLERS Java class used to execute work items Should almost never contain any data
- 16. -Magnolia Workflow- Steven McDermott GTS-Magnolia Enterprise Support VSP Global
- 17. Intro toVSP • Mission Statement:We help people see. • Largest not-for-profit vision benefit and services company • 75 MillionVSPVision care members worldwide • 32,000 network providers • Focus is connecting members toVSP network providers for excellent eye care and eyewear services • Magnolia implemented for line of business Eyefinity, more to come...
- 18. Motivation for Custom Workflow • Eyefinity requested 6 eye implementation of the workflow • Specific set of features within the workflow were needed • email to user groups based on current step in workflow • customized pulse messaging • Planned upgrade of Magnolia, old workflow had to adapt to new functionality. • Magnolia was upgraded from version 5.2.2 to version 5.3.2 • WorkflowVersion broke versioning from 5.2.2 to 5.4.1
- 19. Seeking Support • Began converting workflow to new version and discovered much had changed. • Requested assistance from Support for implementing changes to workflow. • Support took time for multiple phone calls to clarify details and help me gain knowledge needed.
- 20. Approach • Goal fromVSP Global perspective: • Use as much existing code and functionality without any drastic changes • All functionality remains from before change to workflow • Take advantage of new features added to workflow • Tasks • Task Assignment • Improved pulse messaging
- 21. Implementation • Old Workflow - workflow built on workflow module 5.2.2 • Note: No HumanTasks, only configured CustomTasks
- 22. Implementation 1. Starting point - Magnolia Out of the Box Workflow (Workflow Module v5.4.0)
- 23. Implementation 2. Starting Point - Publication
- 24. Implentation • Call Activity configuration
- 25. Implementation • New workflow • CustomTasks and HumanTasks separated • Keeps existing WorkItemHandler code working with CustomTasks to keep code changes minimal • Specific changes made: • org.kie.api.runtime.process.WorkItemManager • #completeWorkItem(String workItemId, Map<String, Object> mgnlData) • HumanTasks inserted after custom WorkItemHandlers • Modularize each item in workflow
- 26. WHAT DID WE LEARN? Changes to a BPMN diagram requires restart jBPM v. 6.2 is compatible with Java 8 Slight differences between plugins Upgrade procedure No need map mgnlData as output Discrepancy in version numbers
- 27. MORE HELP? Espen’s Webinar Rich’s tutorials Documentation Support
- 28. QUESTIONS?