Any evolution in this issue. I need it bad. I was thinking in workflow as a service. Instead of changing dal i would submit the record to a webservice verification service that returns a new record, changed according to the rules. Is this a good thinking? and easier to do?
Thank you António 2012/2/8 Richard Vézina <ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com> > 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/ >> > >
