I think features such as those you already implemented in your bug tracking app hold some importance here as well Ie. the good use of groups, permissions & ability to modify things like ownership - as an example, a corporate accounting department should still have the ability to reimburse employee expenses even though the said employee's accounting contact's position has been terminated (maybe along with 875 other poor employees that same day)... Doh! did I write that out loud? ;) oh well, it still holds true, the wf should still be able to handle any kind of changes like work item ownership and re- route accordingly (this also serves as an example of a good use of roles in a wf :) )
here is a example of implementation details of a workflow. Granted, probably a little too large in scale (especially in light of its new future), but... the idea is there none the less. I think the doc should also contain a blurb on how it makes use of databases http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/overview.pdf ** for those who followed the thread on the use of the word "Enterprise", notice the acronym 'ES' in the product's name. Mart :) On Feb 8, 3:07 am, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a finite state machine. It is nice and simple but too simple. > Anyway, the problem in using that with web2py (or any other web > framework) it is not designed to maintain its state using the > database. > > Anyway, it should be possible to modify it so that state and rules are > stored in the database. Do we expect more from a workflow system? I am > not sure convinced every workflow I need can be modeled finite state > machine. I will give this some more thought. > > massimo > > On Feb 7, 4:25 pm, Richard Vézina <ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > There is no ubuntu official package as far as I can see, so you will have > > to follow the installation information explain into the tar ball available > > here :http://www.hforge.org/itools/ > > > Then : > > > from itools.workflow import Workflow > > > And the rest is explained in the docs : > > >http://www.hforge.org/itools/docs/workflow/ > > > I think you will pretty much have to build your own logic to make use of > > workflow for given objects (tables and rows)... > > > But there is surely a way that this lib could be included into web2py core > > so we can make use of workflow utility readily. > > > Richard > > > 2012/2/7 António Ramos <ramstei...@gmail.com> > > > > How to use this in web2py ? > > > dummies tutorial? > > > > 2012/2/7 omicron <jacques.bouss...@gmail.com> > > > >> This library is small and easy to use: > > >>http://www.hforge.org/itools/docs/workflow/
