On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Iván Martínez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, and everybody, > > I'm Iván Martínez, and I'm working for UPM (Polytechnic University of > Madrid), at DIT (Telematic Engineering Department) department. Two of my > coleagues, Diego Moreno and Emilio García have already contributed to this > group.
Hi Ivan, yes, please say hi to Diego and Emilio ! > Some time ago Diego and some of you discussed about how useful would be to > have a graphical editor to make process writing easier and more intuitive. > I've been working on it for some time and now I'm glad to show you the very > first results. > > (...) > > Before explaining any further, here you can give it a try (it's not 100% > stable, sorry for that): > > http://jungla.dit.upm.es/~imartinez/wfEditor/ Very nice ! Excellent for a set of first steps. I like the two way edition. Promising ! > I'm trying to use a generic and well prepared architecture to make it easy > to grow, specially to allow people to add more "elements" to the ones > already supported. My desire is to make everything open sourced, as a > contribution to OpenWFE project. Great ! You'd have to choose a license and then host it somewhere (hint : http://github.com) > At the moment, just a subset of "elements" (ruote expresions) are supported, > and those are: > > - cursor > - sequence > - participant > - set > - if > - loop > - break > > I'm still working on it giving support to the expressions I found in this > documentation. It would be great if you could tell me wich "elements" (ruote > expressions) would you add, which ones are the most important and useful. The latest version of the documentation lists a number of "basic expressions" : http://ruote.rubyforge.org/expressions.html If you take a look at ruote-fluo : http://difference.openwfe.org:4567/defs http://github.com/jmettraux/ruote-fluo you'll see that it has a generic/default expression that covers all the expressions that don't have their own rendering/editing component. > Concluding, I would be grateful to receive your feedback about style, > usability, and any other issue. The current hottie in the web process designer space is Oryx : http://bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Oryx I'd love something where there is no palette, very few buttons. So that the user is only confronted with his diagram and not a huge palette a la photoshop, he can focus. Could you please use the name "ruote" ? It's starting to stick with people (at least, there are more people googling for "ruote" than "openwfe"/"openwferu" nowadays). A spanish name variation would be welcome as well. As Gonzalo said, Ruby (and Json) output would be neat. ruote-fluo has a distinctive feature : it can be used to display the position of a workitem (or workitems) in a process instance. Do you plan to add such a feature to your tool ? OK, that's all for me. Congratulations ! Looking forward to work with you ! -- John Mettraux - http://jmettraux.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ you received this message because you are subscribed to the "ruote users" group. to post : send email to [email protected] to unsubscribe : send email to [email protected] more options : http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
