Re: Link to user guide no longer there
bob mcwhirter <[email protected]> Thu, 22 May 2003 16:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
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> Apologies for the clarity of this but I have read so much today on workflow > and other stuff that the clarity part of my brain is being swamped by other > stuff. Product of age I think. > > Firstly, Bob had a link to a user guide in this list, > http://eng.werken.com/~bob/werkflow-guide.pdf, this no longer works. The > idiom page on the website is not really enough for me to get a handle on how > the syntax works. Once I 'get it' I am happy to contribute syntax examples > for each of the cases (based on those shown at > http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/patterns.htm) Actually, re-established that link today. It's valid again. > I note that the archives for the interest group and CVS seem to peter out > around the 10th April. Has development stopped for the moment? If so si the > use of the engine at Zenplex a production environment? The reason I ask is > that I am investigating replacement of linked scheduled tasks I have in my > product with a pucka workflow engine where the outcome from a task can have > a decision made about what to do next. So once I have identified a engine > strategically 'right' with the right licence I will have a go at integrating > it. Development has also picked back up in the past few days, due to zenplex's need. > The FAQ page for werkflow makes a reference to using werkflow both as an > engine for orchestrating tasks humans carry out (through a web interface > typically) and also at a micro level for user interface flows. Is there > anywhere any elaboration on this tantalizing statement? This interests me > greatly, I just finished a contract where they claimed they were building a > workflow designer for building logic for web applications. It was no such > thing but the idea interested me just the same. I am sure werkflow using > prevayler will be fast enough to support the latter of these 2. The concept > that I only need to learn one engine that accomodates both of these ends is > very attractive. Haven't exactly addressed the user-interactive stuff yet, but I have some ideas. Fully-automated flows work now. -bob