Hi Marius, On 11/4/06, Marius Erni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm actually going tough the documentation of openWFE and there are some > points that are note clear to me. Here is the first one. > > It is on chapter 4 and about Roles, participants and users > http://www.openwfe.org/manual/ch04s02.html > > > I'm really confused about his notions. > Shouldn't the title, be "Participants" with 2 under titles "roles" and > "users"? with some additional explanations on all terms?
The OpenWFE business process engine just cares about participant [names]. It has no notion of users or roles or groups. The OpenWFE worklist cares about participants and worklist users. > - What are Roles about? > does it mean something like (skills, competences, qualifications)? > A sort of Classification based on what a resource can do? > Or is a Role just à group of users? It really depends on your company/organization. OpenWFE just suggests some ways. If you want to enact a set of process about publishing information you would have roles like 'author', 'publisher', 'reviewer'. If your processes are about insurance claims, you'd have 'customer', 'agent', 'expert'... Roles are just names for participants. > - What are Users about? > Is it mend more like à Resource (participant, actor, user, agent)? > A resource can execute certain tasks for certain cases. Human and/or > on-human (printer, modem): limited capacity In the OpenWFE business process engine, there are no users. In the OpenWFE worklist, users are entitled access rights to certain stores. Participant names used in the engine (via the participant-map.xml) are used to determine into which store a workitem arriving in the worklist should be stored (see etc/worklist/worklist-configuration.xml). Users are not resources. Participants can be human participants or automatic participants. The engine doesn't care, they're just names. The participant-map.xml tells the process engine (and other OpenWFE components) how to dispatch workitems to those participants. > - What is the relationship with the participants and the Roles/Users? Roles are artificial categories of participants. Users are entitled access rights to an OpenWFE worklist and its workitem stores. The worklist configuration tells into which workitem store a workitem for a given participant [name or regex] should go. > I have sort of a colored petri graph view on this topic, but I think it > does not exactly match? It's not about coloted petri nets, it's about not freezing yourself with the OpenWFE roles or the Eindhoven groups, they're just names. Best regards, -- John Mettraux -///- http://jmettraux.openwfe.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWFE users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openwfe-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
