I have custom approval state machibe workflow , this workflow attached to list and enabled to start when any item added or changed according to requirements, when my workflow reached publish state i write custom code to change it's Moderation status to Approved then workflow finished (item state will changed as i want ) but the problem t...
I noticed that every time that I restart my computer I have to do the following tasks: open Terminal type 'cd sites/mysite' open another tab in Terminal type 'cd sites/mysite' type 'script/server --debugger' open Safari go to 'http://localhost:3000/' open TextMate Open -> mysite Is it possible to automatize this process using Automat...
Does anyone know how you can modify the fields in an out-of-the-box (OOTB) Workflow Task (specifically Priority and Due Date)? The OOTB Approval workflow doesn't allow you to set these fields (it allows setting a due date, but not a due time). I had a cunning plan to create a custom workflow in Visual Studio to set these fields automat...
Hi all, I'm getting this error message when trying to add an approval workflow. There has been an error while loading the form. A required resource could not be downloaded. To try to resume the download, refresh the page. Any ideas why? (Googling didn't find any solutions, was wondering what this community had in mind) ...
I am designing a workflow for an absence request at my company. The problem is that whenever I to test the workflow, I don't know if it is SD or MOSS, but it creates a new instance of the workflow. It looks like this: Workflow Name (click to change settings)-----------------Workflows in Progress Review Absence-------------------------...
I have created a custom workflow activity that copies attachments from a case to an email, both supplied as Lookup parameters. I installed the workflow assembly, created a case with attachments and an email. I then used the workflow design to create a new workflow with one step that runs my custom activity. The attachments copied nicely....
We have been developing a workflow based .net web application for the last two months, my team had been working like donkeys. Its almost complete and we are sure of getting the next project from the client. My project manager went for some workflow product demo (K2), came back and asked me: What tool you wish you had to increase your pr...
I have a workflow running on an item in a list. The workflow has an OnWorkflowItemChanged activity sitting within a While activity. I know that the workflow enters the While loop, and if I update the item through the UI, it fires the OnWorkflowItemChanged activity. However, if I update the item programmatically (through a console appl...
I'll try to be more descriptive here. A Few Q's: using: var foo = new Foo() { Bar = new Bar() { Value = "Value" } }; var value = DataBinder.Eval(foo, "Bar.Value"); Or: This one It is possible to retrieve an internal nested property using property path syntax. Is there a way to set/trigger a nested property (a regular property not De...
I'm currently evaluating Drools Flow as a workflow engine for executing up to hundreds of thousands of process instances per day. Has anyone published any scalability benchmarks for this technology? In the absence of published results does anyone have any relevant experience they can share? ...
Inside a workflow I want to handle and error such as not being able to lookup a username that I want to assign a task to. So the username doesn't exsist, I'm going to notify an administrator by email of this, log it to the workflow history and then terminate the workflow. Question is, how do I terminate the workflow, from inside the wor...
The company I work for wants to have monthly releases, and I am trying to convince them to switch to git. I believe the proper git-way to handle this is to have a integration branch for each release (i.e. monthly) and have feature branches off the integration branches for new development and changes. The environment is loaded with interd...
I've been looking for hours. Its possible it doesn't exist and I should just get over it.... But I have a state machine I'm designing and it isn't humanly possible to layout the shapes in some sort of clear manner. Not that a program could do better but it would be a good starting point. Does anyone know of a automated shape layout util...
I have added a workflow to a SharePoint(2007) calendar. The workflow copies information from Column A to Column B if Column A is not equal to Column B. I set this workflow to start when an item is created or modified. However, I would also like to start this workflow on all items that already exist in this calendar. Is there a way I ...
Hi all, I have a workflow setup on the site. The following is what happened: I go site actions -> Manage content and structure and then go to the pages list; and then check all the check boxes on the pending pages; Click the actions in the menu bar; in the drop down list, approve option is greyed out. Only check in option is availab...
Hi... How many ways are there to learn implementing workflow of a software? What are them? ...
I initially started off with a small project, editing php files and such in notepad++. It used to be easy to think of a feature, and add it on as a separate file onto the project. As the project became larger, my productivity began to decrease because I couldn't remember all of the functions I made, and where they were stored etc... Then...
I want to programmatically make it so that users can see only particuar items on the list. Basically in an workflow that runs when an item is created I'm going to do some stuff and notify some people about this item. I also want it to change the permissions on the item so that only particular users (looked up on runtime based on the it...
Hi, I am facing a design issue regarding the use of a workflow engine (jbpm in my case). We have some flows, with tasks, fork/joins and decision nodes, But our users want to go up 'go back' up in the flows (use case: I think the previous person in the team did a mistake, I will send my project back to him). The particularities of our...
I a starting a project where 2 people will be developing a site on WordPress. It also may be necessary to have a development server setup where my client can view changes to the site before we push it live. There also may be database changes (like wordpress settings) that should be pushed all the way from development to dev to producti...