Re: Trouble enabling activity-modeler with syncope debs

[Francesco Chicchiriccò <il...@apache.org>]

On 31/03/2015 23:58, Alan Evans wrote:
> Thank you Francesco,
>
> I have kept 1.2.1 for the moment but I was able to follow the 
> remaining steps using your updated instructions.
>
> I did notice that you had a type-o in the property change in 
> consoleContext.xml, you have "file:/etc/pache-..." instead of 
> "file:///etc/apache-...".

Oh sure :-)

> Now that I have Activiti modeler running is there some kind of a 
> reference as to what is passed to the workflows?  The decisions points 
> and flows and such but I don't know what I can use for conditions.  I 
> can infer a few from the default workflow but I would like to try out 
> a few workflows like requesting approval for access to certain Roles 
> and so on.  I just don't know what options I have for decision 
> making.  Or for that matter how to add new approval notifications...

No such reference available (yet?): probably you'd better explain here 
what you want to achieve exactly and we can provide some hints or 
address to specific samples.

Regards.

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò 
> <ilgrosso@apache.org <ma...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 26/03/2015 22:40, Alan Evans wrote:
>>     I have tried to follow the instructions linked below but I am
>>     having trouble.
>>
>>     https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Enable+Activiti+Modeler
>>
>>     I have gotten to a point where the "Activiti Modeler" button is
>>     no longer greyed out but I am not getting it to work.
>>
>>     I have installed syncope from debian package.  I have installed
>>     maven2 and gotten a "target" directory.
>>
>>     I am working in /root/activity.  The syncope-deb build seems to
>>     contain a oryx.debug.js-tokenValueMap.properties file so I've
>>     used that one.
>>
>>     My pom.xml contains:
>>     <activiti-modeler.directory>/usr/share/apache-syncope</activiti-modeler.directory>
>>     <tokenValueMap>/etc/apache-syncope/oryx.debug.js-tokenValueMap.properties</tokenValueMap>
>>
>>     I've noticed that the deb comes with a console.properties in
>>     /etc/apache-syncope, but it seems the one in the WEB-INF
>>     directory is the one that's used.
>>
>>     I copied /root/activity/target/activiti-webapp-explorer2 to
>>     /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps.
>>
>>     /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/syncope-console/WEB-INF/classes/console.properties
>>     contains:
>>     scheme=https
>>     host=my-real-hostname.example.com
>>     <http://my-real-hostname.example.com>
>>     port=8443
>>     rootPath=/syncope/rest/
>>     activitiModelerDirectory=/var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/activiti-webapp-explorer2/
>>
>>     I am using Ubuntu 14.04, and the 1.2.2 debs from
>>     http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html
>>
>>     Should I have done the build from the webaps directory?  Am I
>>     setting the properties in pom.xml correct?
>
>     Hi Alan,
>     I've just completed the full installation procedure on a clean
>     Debian 7 machine (didn't have an Ubuntu 14.04 ready to use, but
>     things should be pretty close).
>
>     1. followed indications from [1] to install Apache Syncope 1.2.3
>     (recently release) via deb files
>     2. followed indications from [2] to build a sample project (which
>     I also put at [3] for reference) - having
>     /usr/local/activiti-modeler as Activiti Modeler directory
>     3. adjusted the activitiModelerDirectory property in
>     /etc/apache-syncope/console.properties with value
>     /usr/local/activiti-modeler
>     4. restarted Apache Tomcat
>
>     At this point I was expecting that things were just working, but
>     there was still a problem (that you also report above): the
>     configuration files under /etc/apache-syncope were barely ignored.
>     This is actually a bug which I reported [4]; as temporary
>     workaround you need to replace the line 37 of
>
>     /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/syncope-console/WEB-INF/classes/consoleContext.xml
>
>     with
>
>         <property name="location"
>     value="file:/etc/pache-syncope/console.properties"/>
>
>     At this point, after restarting Tomcat, everything was working as
>     expected, including Activiti Modeler.
>
>     HTH
>     Regards.
>
>     [1]
>     https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Install+Syncope+from+.deb+packages
>     [2]
>     https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Enable+Activiti+Modeler
>     [3] https://github.com/ilgrosso/ActivitiModelerEnabler4ApacheSyncope
>     [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-655
>
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Francesco Chicchiriccò

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