Hi everyone,
I'm working with Liferay 7.4 (DXP) and I have a
question about the behavior of the approval workflow for web content (JournalArticle).
In a workflow-enabled scenario, I expected each version of a
JournalArticle to properly track the user who actually created or
updated it. In Liferay 7.1, this was the behavior I observed:
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The userName and userId fields in the
JournalArticle table were set to the user who created
or updated the version.
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The statusByUserName and statusByUserId
fields tracked the user who approved the content via workflow.
However, in Liferay 7.4, I noticed that userName and
userId for each new version are always inherited from the
previous version (typically the original creator), even if another
user actually modified and saved the content (and someone else
approved it).
Example:
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User 1 creates the content → approved by User 2
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User 3 edits and saves the content → approved again by User 2
Result: Version 2 still has userName = User 1, which
is misleading.
Question:
Is this the expected behavior in Liferay 7.4?
Is there a
reliable way to retrieve the user who actually created or modified
each version of the content, even when workflow is enabled?
Any tips on how to extract this information (via API, database, or
customization) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Tommaso
