I'm currently evaluating the MSF for CMMI process template under TFS for use on my development team, and I'm having trouble understanding the need for separate bug and change request work item types. I understand that it is beneficial to be able to differentiate between bugs (errors) and change requests (changing requirements) when gene...
Recently I had to develop a SharePoint workflow, and I found the experience quite honestly the most painful programming task I've ever had to tackle. One big problem I had was the problems I encountered when I had to step through it in the debugger. There's an article on how to debug a SharePoint workflow here that tells you how to set ...
We need to add WorkFlow to our Spring managed application. Does anyone have any useful experience in using any of the myriad of OSS Work Flow solutions? Which one is best? Which one integrates with Spring best? Which ones should we avoid? ...
Hi, a little new to the windows workflow stuff so go easy :) I wish to design a workflow host environment that has high availability - a minimum of 2 WF runtime hosts on separate hardware both pointing to the same persistance or tracking SQL database. I am looking for a pattern whereby I can asynchronously create new workflow instances...
I'm trying to create a custom workflow action with an output parameter for error handling. Working from various examples, I can't get Parameter Direction="Out" to work. Everything seems right, but when I try to assign the output to the "error" variable in SharePoint Designer, it places asterisks around it and flags it as a workflow erro...
I have a custom action in a workflow and would like to report an error to the user when something goes wrong. What's the best way of doing that? UPD: Ideally I would like to put the workflow in the error state and log a message to the workflow log. That doesn't seem possible. What's the closest I can get to it? I want to a reusable s...
I've been using WWF for a while as part of an internal call center application (ASP.NET), and while learning it was a good practice in understanding how a state machine based workflow system should work, I am definitely not in love with WWF itself. In my opinion it is: Overly complex, especially for use within web apps (all that thread...
I'm having some conceptual trouble on figuring out how to best implement this... I want to create a custom Activity class for Windows Workflow. The activity has to call out to a third party library method that itself runs another process asynchronously and may take anywhere from seconds to many hours to complete. This library offers th...
I using SharePoint Designer to create a workflow. I'm trying to get at a subfolder in a document library in the "Define Workflow Lookup" dialog. There are two issues with this: 1) I can't look up items by URL Path. If I look up by Title, I can output the URL Path, but selecting by path doesn't work. What fields can/can't I use? 2) I ...
MS CRM Dynamics 4.0 incorporates the MS WF engine. The built in designer allows the creation of sequential workflows whos activities have native access to CRM entities. Is it possible to: Create a state machine workflow outside of CRM (i.e. in visual studio) and import it into CRM? Have this workflow access the CRM entities? ...
I'm developing a compiler framework for .NET and want a flexible way of defining pipelines. I've considered the following options: WWF Custom XML pipeline description Custom pipeline description in code (using Nemerle's macros to define syntax for it) Other code-based description Requirements: Must not depend on functionality only...
What is the best open source java workflow framework (e.g. OSWorkflow, jBPM, XFlow etc.)? ...
I am implementing a quite simple state-machine order processing application. It is a e-commerce application with a few twists. The users of the application will not be editing workflows by themselves. Microsoft claims that asp.net and Windows Workflow is possible to combine. How hard is it to install and maintain a combination of asp.ne...
I have a repeatable business process that I execute every week as part of my configuration management responsibilities. The process does not change: I download change details into Excel, open the spreadsheet and copy out details based on a macro, create a Word document from an agenda template, update the agenda with the Excel data, creat...
I am looking for a few books, blogs or articles on WWF. I've read the books below; however, I need resources that cover the topic in more depth. I am especially interested in local services, persistence, tracking and viewing Workflows from a website. Any suggestions?? Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 Essential Windows Workflow Foun...
I have a custom (code-based) workflow, deployed in WSS via features in a .wsp file. The workflow is configured with a custom task content type (ie, the Workflow element contains a TaskListContentTypeId attribute). This content type's declaration contains a FormUrls element pointing to a custom task edit page. When the workflow attempts...
I am working on a project with peek performance requirements, so we need to bulk (batch?) several operations (for example persisting the data to a database) for efficiency. However, I want our code to maintain an easy to understand flow, like: input = Read(); parsed = Parse(input); if (parsed.Count > 10) { status = Persist(parsed); ...
Can anyone explain what is windows workflow and how can we use in the work organization. ...
I've been designing a compiler framework (targeting .NET) for a while now and I've been thinking more and more about deprecating the command line interface. A lot of my compiler's flexibility comes from the ability to define custom pipeline elements (to handle DSLs, macros (which have their own DSL to define), etc) and the command line ...
Some things are easier to implement just by hand (code), but some are easier through WF. It looks like WF can be used to create (almost) any kind of algorithm. So (theoretically) I can do all my logic in WF, but it's probably a bad idea to do it for all projects. In what situations is it a good idea to use WF and when will it make thing...