workflow

Send reminder email one day before task due date.

I have a calculated variable called SendEmailDate (=[Due Date]-1), which will be used to determnie when to send the reminder email because I want something to go out one day before the task is due. Here is what I currently have for my workflow. -- First step If Status == Completed Stop task -- Second step If SendEmailDate == Today...

Need help with workflow in Alfresco

Hello SO community, I haven't had any luck getting help in the Alfresco forums, and I'm hoping for more here. We are building an application based on Alfresco and jBPM and I have defined a workflow, but I have either defined it wrong or am missing something or there are bugs in Alfresco integration with jBPM and I need help figuring ou...

How to maintain base files for development environment central while allowing people to change their local copy

Hi, what I'd like to do is have files in a central location so that when I add people to my development team they can see the base version of these files but meanwhile have the ability for the rest of the team to work with their own local version. I know I can just put the files in source-control (we use Tortoiese-SVN) and have my team c...

Binding output of Custom Activity designer to activity argument

I am trying to add a custom activity designer for an activity that I have. The activity looks a little like: public class WaitForUserInputActvitiy : NativeActivity { public InArgument<UserInteractionProperty[]> UserInteraction { get; set; } } I am trying to put a designer on the activity to make it a bit nicer to set these values ...

How to get a debug flow of execution in C++

Hi, I work on a global trading system which supports many users. Each user can book,amend,edit,delete trades. The system is regulated by a central deal capture service. The deal capture service informs all the user of any updates that occur. The problem comes when we have crashes, as the production environment is impossible to re-creat...

Binding data to Combobox in custom activity designer

I have a custom activity, with a single in argument which is a string. However, rather than allow the designer to enter an arbitrary string, I want the designer to be presented with a Combobox with the list of options, the options are dynamic and are loaded from a database into a List<> collection. My problem is I have no clue how to b...

Resources for Customizing TFS Build 2010

I am looking to create a way to build my Legacy Delphi 5 and 6 apps via TFS Build (using TFS 2010). I was fairly dangerous with the MSBuild way of doing things and I think I can still do that, but I would like to get into the Work Flow way of doing it. Are there any resources out there that discuss customizing a TFS Build via Windows W...

what to use for repetitive (daily, weekly, monthly) tasks ? Workflows, Windows Services, something else?

I've been writing Windows Services for a while and they always seem to work fine for things that need to run every day, few times a week, once a month, etc. but I've been lately thinking about going with Windows Workflow Foundation. However, I am unsure how would they run on a server without some container application (for instance Shar...

View the xaml of a Windows Workflow file in Visual Studio

I have a file (just a file. It is not in a solution) that is a Windows Work Flow file. When I open it I get the GUI interface for WF. How can I show the xaml under it? (With out making a solution and adding my file to the solution.) ...

Workflow for academic research projects, one-step builds, and the Joel Test

Working alone on academic research sometimes breeds bad habits. With no one else reading my code, I would write a lot of throw-away code, and I would lose track of intermediate results which, weeks or months later, I wish I had retained. My recent attempts to make my personal workflow conform to the Joel Test raised interesting question...

How do I trigger a Sharepoint Workflow from code?

I have a workflow that is triggered by the creation of a list item and sends out an email when the list item is created. If I create a new item in that list through the Sharepoint front end it sends the email. I have a small console application designed to set the list item through the Sharepoint API. This is run as a scheduled task on...

github like workflow on private server over ssh

I have an server (available via ssh) on the internet that my friend and I use for working on projects together. We have started using git for source control. Our setup currently is as follows: Friend created repository on server with git --bare init named project.friend.git I cloned project.friend.git on server to project.jesse.git I t...

How would you structure your workflow for a web application ?

Hi ! When designing a web application (or something else), it's good to have a workflow, and it's better to have a well ordered one. Starting with this idea in mind, I'd like to know what is your process from having an idea to maintain this great working project. For me actually, the process is the following one : Having the idea Ch...

Workflow in Azure web role

Has anybody experience running WF based Workflow instances in the Azure web role? Could you please share your experiences. ...

How to force a workflow to terminate?

How can i abruptly terminate a workflow in a middle of an activity interrupting the flow sequence? ...

Community Wiki: "Vim: Advanced usage of the yanking mechanism".

Community Wiki As the documentation of the yank system shows (thanks Michal), The Vim yank system seems to be more intricate then a standard clipboard. I therefore think it beneficial if vim veterans could perhaps show us some different styles of making use of this mechanism. particularly with the usage of vim for complicated projects w...

Refresh page in browser without resubmitting form

I'm an ASP.NET developer, and I usually find myself leaving the webpage that I'm working on open in my browser (Chrome is my browser of choice, but this question is relevant for any browser). My workflow typically goes like this: I write code, I rebuild my project in Visual Studio, and then I flip back to my browser with Alt-Tab and hit ...

Workflow for App Engine

I'm about to start an App Engine project for the first time. Most likely with Python. I was wondering if anybody could give me a leg up by detailing their workflow when developing for it. What tools do you use to go from start to deployed? Did you do any app engine specific configurations to those tools? ...

About the sharepoint LogToHistoryListActivity.Duration.

Does anybody know what the LogToHistoryListActivity.Duration does? I see some people set it to zero and some people keep the default negative value. I didn't find any useful information on MSDN. Thanks, ...

WF4 - Display workflow image in asp.net and highlight an activity

i need to display current status of a document approval workflow task in asp.net web page with a specific activity highlighted. i have seen the visual workflow tracker example (in wf&wcf samples) but i have two issues, 1-i have to render workflow in asp.net not in a wpf app. 2-i don't need to display current status with workflow runn...