Hello. My question is about more general workflow of a development team rather than a direct coding problem, and I don't know if this type of questions are allowed here. We have created a digital agency-like brand in a multi-brand company. All of us (currently 4 people) are experienced freelancers but none of us worked in a serious deve...
My application is using workflow designer rehosting to let end-users develop workflows. I have an Activity available that requires the user set some state. To accomplish this, in the designer I override Initialize(Activity) and show a form which I then use to set values in my Activity. This is for setting the state when the Activity is i...
I am working on a code which takes a dataset and runs some algorithms on it. User uploads a dataset, and then selects which algorithms will be run on this dataset and creates a workflow like this: workflow = {0: {'dataset': 'some dataset'}, 1: {'algorithm1': "parameters"}, 2: {'algorithm2': "parameters"}, 3: {'algorithm3': "paramet...
When projects get large, I imagine you might start having 100s of mailer templates: user_signup_confirmation.html.erb user_signup_failure.html.erb user_account_activation.html.erb user_account_cancelation.html.erb ... What is your workflow for handling this? Do you have them email you what they want and then you mold it into a metho...
I know workfow engine is, but actually in our programming life, how can we get use of the workflow engine ? How will workflow engine help us ? ...
This is a general question concerning the Workflow Foundation (.NET 3.5) and versioning the data that it works with. We have a lot of custom activities that work with some data and this data may be interesting also for the future analysis of the already completed workflows (provided that we configure the tracking in such a way that it st...
For a state machine workflow, it is a common pattern to raise events from the presentation layer and these events are handled on the workflow layer. Most commonly, the workflow performs different kinds of updates. Is there a nice way to return data from the workflow layer to the presentation layer? For example, user clicks on a button...
I have a workflow activity that is responsible for checking if a certain part of the infopath form was filled out correctly. If it wasn't it creates a task for the original submitter to complete that section. The workflow starts with a CodeActivity that reads in the document and checks if it is valid. If not it then creates a task for...
Cannot, for the life of me, see where it's getting WFServiceLibrary1. My feeling is that it's a default that it tries to bind if something isn't right elsewhere. It's also possible the workflow service library was originally named WFServiceLibrary1, but I can't find anywhere to change this. Any ideas? ...
I have frequently encounter the following debugging scenario: Tester provide some reproduce steps for a bug. And to find out where the problem is, I try to play with these reproduce steps to get the minimum necessary reproduce steps. Sometimes, luckily I found that when do a minor change to the steps, the problem is gone. Then the job ...
We are in the process of migrating our workflows from Livelink and SharePoint to AgilePoint. If anyone has had experience in using AgilePoint, would you mind sharing your experiences? For example: What are some gotcha's you've encountered? Have you found any particular aspect of AgilePoint especially useful? Have you found any particu...
Are Subversion Tags a good way to post to a development or staging server? I envision this. As the trunk becomes stable, a tag is created with that build. The development server switches to that tag utilizing Subversion, updating to the latest revision of files, deleting no longer needed files, etc. The server account I envision would ...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the built-in Apache for local web development on Mac OS X, specifically 10.6 Snow Leopard? Instead of using the built-in Apache, I know that options such as MAMP and XAMPP exist. However, for some reason I just haven't wrapped my head around the benefits or potential pitfalls with using...
The more I research a couple topics with regards to ASP.net, the more I feel like there's a real gap on how and where to properly apply a few things to the ASP.net realm (both webforms and mvc). Workflow Foundation I love using WF; however, everything that I've ever read is that it's not recommended for ASP.Net apps because of the 1 wo...
I'm using http://github.com/geekq/workflow to provide a state machine. I'm using ActiveRecord to save state, which means I have a "workflow_state" attribute in the model. I think I want a named_scope for each event in the state machine, so I can find all objects in a given state. For example, assuming a very simple state machine: workfl...
I have a closed source project that is built on my open source framework. I want to know how I should structure my workflow. Below is my best guess using git with submodules. I create a public framework repo on github with submodules that are separate git repos. I purchase a "micro" account on github ($7) so I can have a private repo....
I am looking for some ideas on enhancing a trial-user's user experience when he uses a product for the first time. The product is aimed at a particular domain and has various features/workflows. Experienced users of the product naturally find interesting ways to combine features to get the results they want (somewhat like using an IDE fr...
I have SharePoint site with publishing features enabled. I have a custom content type with the out of the box approval workflow configured. In the Workflow settings, the final option to "Update the approval status (use this workflow to control content approval)" has been checked. The lists on which the content type is configured do not...
I am about to begin a web application. Before I begin, I would like to get some advice as to what the best work flow/order is for creating a web application such as this. My project will consist of a server-side with PHP and MySQL. The client-side will be XHtml, CSS and jQuery. There will also be AJAX used. I'm sure that it can depend...
I have a standard sharepoint list with a workflow (the sort you create through the standard sharepoint interface). When the approver of the workflow approves an item, any previous comments other staff members have made immediately get reattributed to him. I've looked through the workflow settings but can't see anything obvious, and docum...