How to create a new group in KIE workbench?

[madmaz]

Hi,

I just started porting a project to the JBpm 6. If I log into the console and I go to Project Authoring, under Project Explorer I find a drop-box with only "demo" group. How can I create a new group?

Also, if I try to create a new Repository, I am asked to select a group but still I can only select "demo".

Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

[krisverlaenen]

The CR2 release doesn't allow you to do this through the UI yet, this will be available in the next release I believe.

You can however use a command line interface to configure various properties of your repository, including group management:

https://github.com/droolsjbpm/kie-wb-distributions/tree/master/kie-config-cli

[madmaz]

Ok, I got this tool (I found an already compiled package kie-config-cli-6.0.0-20130902.162337-319-dist.zip) and ran it on my server. Then I used create-org-unit (which replaces create-group), create-repo and add-repo-org-unit commands.

After that, I ran list-org-units:

Currently available Organizational Units:

        Organizational Unit mycustomer

        owner: admin

        roles: []

        repositories:

                Repository mycustomer-playground

                        scheme: git

                        uri: git://mycustomer-playground

                        environment: {username=, scheme=git, security:roles=[], password=}

                        repository roles: []

Finally, I went to the KIE Workbench but, I still had only the demo organization-unit/group. Also after restarting the server.

As starting point, it seem strange to me that demo isn't present in the above list.

I'm sure the location of the parent folder of .niogit is right (in fact the list-repo returns jbpm-playground, uf-playground, mycustomer-playground).

Can you help me? Which are the right steps?

Thanks.

[swiderski.maciej]

I just tried the exact same version of the kie-config-cli and here is complete log of the commands I used:

./kie-config-cli.sh 
********************************************************


************* Welcome to Kie config CLI ****************


********************************************************


>>Please specify location of the parent folder of .niogit
/development-servers/jboss-eap-6.1/bin
>>Please enter command (type help to see available commands): 
help   
Result:
****************** KIE CLI Help ************************
********************************************************
Available commands:
  exit - quits this command line tool
  help - prints this message
  list-repo - list available repositories
  list-org-units - list available organizational units
  list-deployment - list available deployments
  create-org-unit - creates new organizational unit
  remove-org-unit - remove existing organizational unit
  add-deployment - add new deployment unit
  remove-deployment - remove existing deployment
  create-repo - creates new git repository
  remove-repo - remove existing repository from config only
  add-repo-org-unit - add repository to the organizational unit
  remove-repo-org-unit - remove repository from the organizational unit
  add-role-repo - add role(s) to repository
  remove-role-repo - remove role(s) from repository
  add-role-org-unit - add role(s) to organizational unit
  remove-role-org-unit - remove role(s) from organizational unit
  add-role-project - add role(s) to project
  remove-role-project - remove role(s) from project


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>Please enter command (type help to see available commands): 
list-org-units        
Result:
Currently available Organizational Units: 
  Organizational Unit demo
  owner: [e-mail]
  roles: []
  repositories: 
  Repository jbpm-playground
  scheme: git
  uri: git://jbpm-playground
  environment: {username=guvnorngtestuser1, scheme=git, security:roles=[], origin=https://github.com/guvnorngtestuser1/jbpm-console-ng-playground-kjar.git, password=****}
  repository roles: []
  Repository uf-playground
  scheme: git
  uri: git://uf-playground
  environment: {username=guvnorngtestuser1, scheme=git, security:roles=[], origin=https://github.com/guvnorngtestuser1/guvnorng-playground.git, password=****}
  repository roles: []


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>Please enter command (type help to see available commands): 
create-org-unit
>>Organizational Unit name:CompanyOU
>>Organizational Unit owner:[e-mail]
>>Repositories (comma separated list):
Result:
Organizational Unit CompanyOU successfully created
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>Please enter command (type help to see available commands): 
list-org-units    
Result:
Currently available Organizational Units: 
  Organizational Unit demo
  owner: [e-mail]
  roles: []
  repositories: 
  Repository jbpm-playground
  scheme: git
  uri: git://jbpm-playground
  environment: {username=guvnorngtestuser1, scheme=git, security:roles=[], origin=https://github.com/guvnorngtestuser1/jbpm-console-ng-playground-kjar.git, password=test1234}
  repository roles: []
  Repository uf-playground
  scheme: git
  uri: git://uf-playground
  environment: {username=guvnorngtestuser1, scheme=git, security:roles=[], origin=https://github.com/guvnorngtestuser1/guvnorng-playground.git, password=test1234}
  repository roles: []
  Organizational Unit CompanyOU
  owner: [e-mail]
  roles: []
  repositories: 


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>Please enter command (type help to see available commands): 
exit

with that then started app server where it the console/kie-wb was deployed and the groups is available when cloning or creating new repositories. As you can see on the very beginning of the log I specified the location of JBOSS_HOME/bin where is .niogit located. This is in fact the only thing that might be mssing if the group/OU is not available. After adding the group via cli app server must be restarted as the application does not monitor external changes to the configuration.

btw, what OS and java version do you use?

HTH

[madmaz]

Tried the same but still cannot see "demo" organization unit

Any other suggestion/thing to check?

My environment:

jBPM 6.0.0.CR2 (so I have jboss-as-7.1.1.Final)

Linux 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.9) (7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1)

Thanks.

********************************************************

************* Welcome to Kie config CLI ****************

********************************************************

>>Please specify location of the parent folder of .niogit

/home/technology/jbpm-porting-to-6/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/bin

>>Please enter command (type help to see available commands):

list-org-units

Result:

Currently available Organizational Units:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[swiderski.maciej]

when you invoke the cli too against .niogit in as7 bin directly, has the application been started already? Asking because the group will be created first time application is started. Otherwise it would be empty. Another thing you could try to remove the .niogit and let the cli tool create one for you. Then add the group and check if it adds properly. Next start application on jboss and you should see both your group and demo in there.

HTH

[madmaz]

I tried as you suggested but still no success.

Moreover, just as note, I cannot see the demo group but instead I can see uf-playground and jbpm-playground. But if I use remove-repo on this two (I don't need them...) and restart the server, the jbpm-console doesn't start anymore because there are some stacktrace starting from org.kie.workbench.backend.AppSetup.assertPlayground(...). I also tried setting properties org.jbpm.console.demo and org.kie.wb.demo to false but no difference.

[madmaz]

Hi,

now with JBPM 6 CR5 the group and repository management works: in fact I am able to create a new group and to remove from the KIE workbench, great!

But now the problem is that if I remove the jbpm-playground and uf-playground, when I restart the JBoss server, the start fails due to an exception on assertPlayground() in org.kie.workbench.backend.AppSetup.

Any solution?

Thanks.

Cheers.

[swiderski.maciej]

I assume you would like to have KIE workbench without the demo repositories, if that's the case you should add following system property to the server startup and that will ensue no demo repos will be loaded:

-Dorg.kie.demo=false

HTH