Dialog Participant Step

Question

Hi Guys,
            Reaching out to you for help and guidance. I have been working on workflows and as a part of that effort I have to provide an interface to the Participant to enter some inputs (JIRA ID and Comment). The idea is to take these inputs and integrate with the jira system. I am working with Dialog Participant Step for this effort. I have created a dialog which shows up when a particpant advances the workflow from his inbox. I am not able to tie up this dialog with a java process where I can capture the inputs via metaData object. The post parameters and error is as below.
The POST request params are as below:
cmd=advance
_charset_=utf-8
:status=browser
route-/etc/workflow/instances/2012-01-18/model_237097001523152/workItems/node2_etc_workflo w_instances_2012-01-18_model_237097001523152=261752321
item=/etc/workflow/instances/2012-01-18/model_237097001523152/workItems/node2_etc_workflow _instances_2012-01-18_model_237097001523152
./metaData/jiraId=1234
./metaData/jiraComment=jira%20Comment
./metaData/PROCESS=com.att.ecom.cq.bundle.workflow.CustomWorkflow
./metaData/PROCESS_AUTO_ADVANCE=true
./metaData/PROCESS_AUTO_ADVANCE%40Delete=true
comment-/etc/workflow/instances/2012-01-18/model_237097001523152/workItems/node2_etc_workf low_instances_2012-01-18_model_237097001523152=
Error received: (Per Firebug)
Error while processing /content/geometrixx/en/products/circle
Status
500
Message
javax.jcr.nodetype.ConstraintViolationException: no matching property definition found for {}jiraComment
Location
/content/geometrixx/en/products/circle
Parent Location
/content/geometrixx/en/products
Path
/content/geometrixx/en/products/circle
Referer
http://dhruva.admin.cingular.net:7001/shopcms/libs/cq/workflow/content/inbox.html
ChangeLog
Go Back
Modified Resource
Parent of Modified Resource
Please let me know if my approch is right in doing it this way, if not need some advice on the alternate approch. I could not get any documentation on DialogParticipant Step. Any references to it would help.
Thanks & Regards
Rama.

Answer 1

Murali,
  I am not sure to what extent you have gone through with your dialog participant step. But for implementing a dialog participant step few steps below.
1. You would be creating a dialog with some text fields
     Note: Make sure the names of the each input element and also any hidden elements starts with ./jcr:content/<nameofcomponent>. Else you would encounter the error that I mentioned above. ConstraintViolation error.
2. Create a model with this dialog as first step via dialog participant step.
3. Once you run this workflow on a payload you would see an action item in the workflow inbox.
4. right click and complete the step. Your dialog pops up embeded with in out of the box dialog. Input some vals in the input forms and complete the workflow. You should see a POST call in firebug which tries to POST the vals that you have entered in the dialog on to the pay load path in the jcr repository. The property name is the name you defined for the text field (or any other component) and value that you have entered.
At the end of the workflow you should see that the vals that you have entered in your dialog are registered on the payload's jcr:content path. Once this happens you can add a next step in the workflow which would be a java process step which can read these vals from the <payload>/jcr:content and process further.
Let me know if that gives you an idea of what needs to be done. For sure it would be a trial and error way to deal with and not lots of ppl are out there who can help with the workflow aspect of CQ. If you are given the task of working with workflows in your work, i would just welcoome you saying welcome to the land of unkown .
Rama.