workflow

Is an integrated help/advisor UI design the best way to implement a workflow?

I'd like some feedback, and opinions on the following approach to UI design: We're working on an application that implements a series of industry-standard protocols. Each protocol dictates (very rigidly) how the user should perform the task at hand, from setup to collect data, to collecting the data, data entry and validation, analysis ...

Workflows stuck 'in progress' when moved to sharepoint farm environment

We have developed a number of custom approval workflows in visual studio 2008. They basically create task and work through a 2 stage approval process, once a task is completed, it generates new tasks for stage 2, then completes. These have been tested and work well in a single server moss/sharepoint environment. We have now moved them ...

setting global process variable in jbpm 4.2 process definition

I want to set a variables in a process definition for JBPM4 As these variables will be set for all process instances with the same values ...

Salesforce: Trigger that fires off a Workflow rule has stopped working - any ideas?

So in one part of our customised Salesforce system, the following happens: a trigger changes the value of a picklist on a custom object a Workflow rule detects that change and fires off an email. Since about the 4th of December though, it seems to have stopped working. edit: The Debug Logs show that the trigger is firing and changing...

Ruby task application (tap) python alternative

I just saw this http://www.scribd.com/doc/13054288/Tap-Workflows What I need is a replacement of make to perform computations that are dependent on each other but whose dependency is not only on something like the filename. I already posted a question about it a while ago, but I did not get satisfying answers, although I accepted one ...

sharepoint workflow config file

Hi, I'm developing sharepoint workflow inside which I call custom web service. Where can I put the configuration file (section), so I can change the url in the future for the web service? With the default one is working fine. Thanks ...

resultout used in oracle workflow

what is resultout used in oracle workflow,function activity ...

Distributed Job scheduling, management, and reporting

I recently had a play around with Hadoop and was impressed with it's scheduling, management, and reporting of MapReduce jobs. It appears to make the distribution and execution of new jobs quite seamless, allowing the developer to concentrate on the implementation of their jobs. I am wondering if anything exists in the Java domain for th...

Sharepoint Designer - how to restart a workflow

Is there a way, through SPD (w/o the state machine extension), to restart a workflow? ...

Change Assigned To of the task

Hello All, I have a workflow in which I am assigning a task to a particular SharePoint group [Not to default "Assignedto" field of Task list, I am taking the group in a custom field and am able update the group name in Task list. I have an InfoPath where I have fetched the list of users in SharePoint Group. I am able to see the user wh...

SharePoint - Modify the actions within a SPD-built workflow template programmatically?

Does anyone know whether it's possible to modify the workflow actions of a SharePoint Designer workflow template programmatically? For example, one has a SendEmail action and I'd like to modify the values of the To or the Bcc through code. Thanks in advance ...

sharepoint workflow on a task item not starting

Hi, I have the following scenario: a workflow is associated with an item list this workflow creates various tasks for different people since it is quite complex to monitor dueDate for each task item in this workflow, I thought I'd create a new workflow that would be associated with the task list and have very simple logic in it, just...

looking for thoughts on open source workflow version control apps

Hi. Starting to think about a tool/app to use for a project that will have multiple devs, with testers/reviewers/etc.. I'm going to need the app to provide the ability to ccheck in/out the docs/code, as well as keep track of everything on a quarterly basis. (IE, the code/docs will change on a periodic basis). At a granular level, each f...

WCF Hosted Workflow - Debug.Writeline() occassionally gets swallowed up somewhere

I know the calls are going out, as I've used an incremented variable to track it. But some just never make it to the output window. Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? Similarly, breakpoints in the workflow are very unreliable. Stuck with this? ...

Sharepoint Designer - is there a way to calculate a date difference in a workflow?

Maybe I'm just crazy... So, with SPD I can add any time unit to a date and put that into a variable, but I can't seem to find anything that will let me calculate the difference between two dates. "Do Calculation" only lets me pick from numeric values. Am I missing something here? Seems like something which should be obvious. ...

Workflows in ASP.NET MVC

As a learning exercise, I want to migrate an existing flash application to ASP.NET MVC. It has around 20 forms, and although it's mostly linear, there is some degree of alternate flows based on user decisions or data returned. Could anyone point me in the right direction of how a controller would handle this? I don't want my views to ...

Monitoring a workflow

I am trying to monitor a defined and working workflow system without having to add my own activities to the system to receive notifications of different steps being created. I have looked for a RSS type feed of the workflow and you can get one, if you added that activity. Does anyone know of any other way to get some type of message or...

MySQL DROP DATABASE equivalent w/o root access or DROP privileges

I am coordinating a number of PHP development projects. I have setup a workflow where developers all work with one Subversion repository. When they are ready to take a look at their application on staging servers upload a MySQL DB dump and create a tag. I have configured a shell script that will automatically deploy the PHP code to th...

Suggest a better flow for a quiz app in CakePHP

Here's the current flow of my quiz app: users/do_program quiz_contents/view quiz_questions/do_quiz The checking if the user has to do another module after finishing the current ones are in the quiz_contents and quiz_questions controller which I think can be improved because of the duplicate code. So what would you guys suggest? Some...

Dynamics CRM 4.0 Campaign Response Workflow issue

Hi I am pretty novice when it comes to CRM so hopefully someone can help me. I am trying to create a workflow that triggers when the campaign response is set to closed and then updates a few fields within the related 'Customers' record. I would have imagined that this would have been straight forward. However, when creating my workflo...