For my self I am interresting to workflow in context of LIMS and here a article about kind of workflows in LIMS :
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/workflow-perspectives-in-lims.aspx Richard On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:12 PM, mart <msenecal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >
