workflow

Suggestion for customizable workflow tool

Hi, There's a project which we're doing for the govt which necessisiates the use of a workflow system. I'm looking for advice on what software systems we can use (either commercial or open source / freeware) with appropriate customizations. Steps: 0. We monitor a certain site for "notifications". Whenever a notification is posted, this...

Why does my SharePoint workflow fail when the client is running Vista or Windows 7?

I have a similar situation to this question. I have a custom sequential SharePoint workflow, deleoped in Visual Studio 2008. It is associated with an InfoPath form submitted to a form library. It is configured to automatically start when an item is created. It works sometimes. Sometimes it just fails to start. Just like the questio...

True Parallel Processing in jBPM

need to achieve: Forking processing to multiple tasks <fork name="customFork" > <transition to="task1" /> <transition to="task2" /> <transition to="task3" /> ... ... ... <transition to="taskN" /> </fork> jBPM solution should execute tasks in parallel, and not, how it is done by default, sequential...

Use of git rebase in publicy feature branchs

You can see all over the web people advising to not use git rebase in a public branch, but I can't see what's the problem if you always rebase a feature branch. My team always use branchs for features (wow), we are used to have it just locally, so rebase isn't a problem, but sometimes we wanna show the code of a partially done feature t...

Modify installed SharePoint feature

I have written a sequential workflow in SharePoint on our development environment. After testing, we decided to deploy this workflow as a feature on the staging environment. We did the following: copied the strongly named assembly to the GAC using gacutil copied feature.xml and workflow.xml to WebServerExtensions/12/templates/features/...

Windows Workflow Runtime leaks a ton of memory

Here's a overview of my workflow implementation: GUI thread starts worker thread worker thread analyzes some data worker thread starts several other worker threads to work on subsets of data each of these last worker threads creates a workflow runtime and executes a sequential workflow Up until now, I've been creating a new WorkflowR...

SPD workflow to reset check box

I have a sharepoint list that uses a cascading lookup to display items from another list in the first list. I need to reset the checkbox on the item in the lookup display box in the every week beginning with a date in the "Start Date" field. Is it possible to construct a workflow in SPD to reset the checkbox every 7 days from the "Start...

How can I handle the termination of a workflow ?

I have implemented a queuing mechanism including UI for running specific types of workflows (WF 3.5), where I wanted to include a possibility for a user to cancel / terminate the workflow. The termination doesn't have to be synchronous, it would be enough to show that the cancellation is in progress and let him refresh the state later. ...

SharePoint canceled workflow still sending task overdue notification

We're having a problem on one of our SharePoint sites as follows: User created a Collect Signatures workflow on an item in a document library. User canceled the workflow. All tasks created by the workflow are marked as completed. However, users are still being emailed task overdue notifications! I'm at a complete loss as to why this ...

Show list items specific to user sharepoint

Hi all, In my project i have a asset list which contains "request to download" link. In the same list there is "download link" column which is default empty. Now when any user clicks on request to download link a workflow is activated and it will send request to approver to approve or reject the download request. If approver accept t...

Workflow for "Process Application" website

Hi All, We are in the process of designing a web site were users can fill an application form and submit it. Once an application is created, it goes through different departments for review.After each review, the department persons log on to the website and update the status of the application. Once review is completed, the application ...

Using git for a large website

I am looking for some advice on how to use git for a website with a lot of html content. We have 2 content managers that do basic html coding and upload their work to the server. I am the only developer. The site is pretty equally divided between 2 types of content. First is a news content that is posted to a database and displayed thr...

best way to versionize different git branches

We have the following scenario: We have several base versions of our game OpenLieroX; right now 0.57, 0.58 and 0.59. For each base version, we have a seperate branch. Each such base version has several releases (like 0.57 beta1-beta8 and rc1, 0.58 beta1-beta9). When we are working on new stuff, we are working in the highest base version...

(abusing?) git workflow

Coming from Sourcesafe, I have primarely been using git as a major undo feature. I tend to work in the master branch, code happily away for some time, commit here and there and move on. While I'm coding my brains out, I sometimes wish to drop what I'm doing right now and start working on another feature. I know I can start another br...

Is there an ftp plugin for gedit that will let me work locally?

I'm trying to switch from a windows environment to Linux. I'm primarily PHP developer, but I do know quite a bit about other languages such as CSS, XHTML and Javascript. I need a way of editing my files locally because I work in a git repository and need to commit my saves. On windows I used Aptana and PDT. I'd save my files, upload via ...

SharePoint workflow "in progress" page taking 10-15 seconds to load.

I am running MOSS 2007 on a Dell PE 2850. We have aprox 350 users using workflows on this site. The server fairly idle, but one page in SharePoint is taking more than 10 seconds to load. It is the "In Progress" link under running workflows, once the page loads it shows the current status of the workflow and the history for it. Any ideas ...

State machine workflow - VB.NET

I am creating a very simple state machine class library project in vb.net. This has only 3 states - CreateApplication, ProcessApplication and CompleteApplication. I have an interface created in the same project.I am invoking it from a web application by calling ApplicationService.CreateApplication(obj of ApplicationDetail) <ExternalDat...

Workflow incorporating Subversion, FTP, Editor

Currently I am working on a project that involves the following daily workflow: Update local code and edit commit to subversion repository ftp to a testing server I have been using Netbeans to handle all of this but frankly it, combined with the other stuff I am running, eats up all of my machine's resources frequently leaving it slu...

Windows Workflow Foundation in ASP.NET 3.5 Web Application - Best Approach

Hi, What is the best way to use Windows Workflow Foundation in ASP.NET 3.5 Web Application. In my case there are several workflows(sequential) which includes numerous steps, user has the privilege to save and exit at any of these steps; the state must be persisted, possibly in SQL Server. Exposing workflows as web service is good i...

How to get GUID of a subfolder in a document library programmatically

Okay, here is the scenario... I have created a subfolder in a document library, and when an item is added to the document library, i want to do some processing on the document and then move the item to the subfolder, say MySubFolder. For that purpose, i will be using this statement SPListItem folder = this.workflowProperties.List.Folder...