Oracle BPM: Override Oracle BPM Operations (Approve, Reject, ....)

When you create new Oracle BPM Application and generate human task page with payload,  BPM automatically will generate human task operations like Approve, Reject, OK, ....

  Sometime developer need to execute some code before calling operation Approve or Reject so you need to override operation Approve or Reject. To do so follow these steps:

1- Bind approve button action to method in backbean

	<af:commandToolbarButton actionListener="#{invokeActionBean.setOperation}"
	text="#{wf:getResourceValue('APPROVE', 'bindings.customActions')}"
	disabled="#{!bindings.APPROVE.enabled}"
	partialSubmit="false"
	visible="#{wf:isCustomActionAvailable('APPROVE', 'bindings.customActions')}"
	id="ctb1"
	action="#{myBean.approveAction}">
	<f:attribute name="DC_OPERATION_BINDING" value="bindings.APPROVE"/>
	</af:commandToolbarButton>

view raw approve.xml hosted with ❤ by GitHub

2- In the approval action back bean method write this:

	public String approveAction()
	{
	try
	{
	// write code here before execute approval action
	Map map = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequestMap();
	oracle.bpel.services.workflow.worklist.adf.InvokeActionBean invokeActionBean = (oracle.bpel.services.workflow.worklist.adf.InvokeActionBean) map.get("invokeActionBean");
	String result = invokeActionBean.invokeOperation();
	// write code here after execute approval action
	return result;
	}
	catch (Exception e)
	{
	// TODO: Add catch code
	e.printStackTrace();
	}
	return null;
	}

view raw approve.java hosted with ❤ by GitHub

be sure that the button in the page has actionListener="#{invokeActionBean.setOperation}" and has  attribute

You can do same steps in any other operations like Reject, Ok, ....

Oracle BPM: Set User as Administrator

How do you know if the user is admin user or normal user?

In Oracle BPM when the user login to workspace the administration link will appear if this user is Admin user

but if the login user is normal user this link will not appear

From the administration link admin user can assign users/groups to the application role or remove users/groups to the application role and user can do a lot of others administration functions.

To set user as administration follow these steps:

1- Login to em (http://serverIp:port/em) and login with weblogic user.
2- Expand SOA then right click on the soa-infra --> Security --> Application Roles

3- Press search icon and select "BPMWorkflowAdmin" then press Edit

4- Press Add icon to add and search for the user or group

5- The added user will be Admin user. If you add group the all users inside this group will be admin users