workflow

Workflow Foundation - Unable to access WCF service

Hello, I'm trying to create a Workflow that need to access a few WCF services. Everytime that I try to add a specific WF In receive de following error : Error 1 Unable to resolve the type 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/netfx/2009/xaml/activities:OutArgument(Dictionary)' referenced by Property 'GetParameterSetResult'. Ensure that the ...

Sharepoint 2007: Intercept workflow cancellation event

Does anybody know how to intercept a workflow cancellation event triggered from UI by a user clicking on "Terminate this workflow now" link ? I tried with a workflow-wide Cancel Handler, but it does not fire at the event. ...

Rules engine approach for decision making

I need some design help with this. Customer places orders on the system. Each order has a status and based on the status, certain activities need to be performed. The entire process is fairly new so the activities that should be performed and their order are subject to change. Instead of coding the entire logic in the business object...

Is there a "Workflow Engine" implementation for Delphi?

For (application) server development with Delphi, I would like to use a workflow engine similar to the existing implementations for other programming languages (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow_engine). Is there already an implementation or should I better write my own? ...

How can I customize an email-notification within a sharepoint 2010 workflow?

Hello, I've got a random workflow in my sharepoint application that allows employees to make a request for some holiday period! So some emails have to be send around. I'd like tu customize this email-notifications in the following way: language (default is 'en', and I'd like to cange if possible) structure thanks a lot! george ...

48 minute technique for entering and sustaining programmer flow

I have been working at entering and sustaining periods of flow while working, and while researching the concept I came across this site which addressed the idea of sustaining flow in short bursts. The technique specifies that one sets a timer for 48 minutes in which they focus purely on their work, and when the timer runs out they spend ...

Workflow status hangs in "starting" forever.

WHy does de workflow hangs on 'starting' forever? it wont start automatically, if i start it manually it'll work but wont fire the events ( in this case , my task created event) , this is happening to development enviroment from a time to now, in the production enviroment it works fine. The event log says With event id 6763: SafeContr...

workflow marked as start on update

I have a nintex workflow set to fire when an item is modified. If the workflow modifies an item, will it trigger the same workflow again? ...

How should I stop a long-running WF4 workflow?

I'm developing some Workflow 4 activities that will continuously loop and do some work. For example, one may watch an RSS feed and execute some steps as new items are added. I would like to be able to stop and restart this process cleanly (ie, in a windows service or Azure Worker Role). Currently, I have a While loop with an expressi...

Moving from ClearCase to Git

I'm coming from a ClearCase background where we (simply speaking) had a workflow made up of three steps where the leftmost trunk was unstable, middle trunk is Quality Assurance and the rightmost was stable. i.e.) A A A | | | B C | | /| | C | E | | / D E | / E As you can see the stable trunk contains only the versions that...

Django: How to keep track of a linear (yet flexible) project management workflow?

I'm developing a project management application in Django that requires a somewhat linear response process involving different groups of users (as in Django auth Groups). Each step in the response process has several response options (most options unique to the step) and is assigned to a user within a particular group. The next step in...

WF4: Persistance and DTC

Hi ! I'm building a workflow host that will manage WorkflowApplication instances. Instances will use SqlWorkflowInstanceStore. Tables and logic for SqlWorkflowInstanceStore are in the same database as my other tables and logic that I'm writing into with persistence participants. I'm not using AppFabric. My question is: do I need DTC...

Get the changeset number of a triggered build in TFS 2010

Hello, can someone please tell me how I can get the changeset number, the current build of TFS 2010 was triggered for? I want to extend the build worklfow if the build was triggered by a checkin and want to do some more processing for which I need the changesetnumber of the changeset that was created by the checkin. Any ideas? Thx! ...

Git pull with rebase causing excessive conflicts. How can I fix our workflow?

We have a base system that is customized for each client. The base lives in its own repository, and each client lives in its own repository (originally cloned from base). The goal is to have the ability to add bug fixes/features to base, which can be propagated to clients, on demand. So far the workflow has been as follows: Make comm...

git merging workflows

I found the following stuff from progit. I do not understand the portion in bold style. Could anyone kindly explain. The Git project has four long-running branches: master, next, and pu (proposed updates) for new work, and maint for maintenance backports. When new work is introduced by contributors, it’s collected into topic branches ...

How to get workflow instance in an activity?

I was not able get the workflow instance in code activity of my workflow.how do I get it? I did check WorkflowEventArgs.WorkflowInstance Property but in my code activity i do not have WorkflowEventArgs. instead i have EventArgs. What I am trying to do: basically, i need to access the Workflow queue data to get the values in queue. in ...

How do you implement a project with many workflow ?

I just got a project which I need to implement lots of workflows, and I am considering to use jbpm engine to implement those workflow, so I want to know is their limits which I need to think through before useing jbpm engine , or any alternates ? Our workflow is something like following: user fill in the application form => assistant ma...

Good Mercurial workflow for a team of 15 developers.

Hi, I'm in a team of 15 developers currently using Allfusion Harvest. We're not happy with it and looking around we've decided to switch to Mercurial due to the available frontends TortoiseHg and MercurialEclipse. We're currently using a twelve year old release of Harvest and I find our current workflow hard to translate to Mercurial. I...

Workflow Foundation - WCF / Custom entities can't be passed between services

Hello, I've created a workflow which transmits data from one service to another. The problem is that the Entities aren't recognized. Service A : Content provider, contains a custom entity declaration Service B : Transform list of entities declared in A in a new form of entities So in a schematic view : WF -> A -> Entity WF -> B -> A (...

WCF Workflow Service Application - Required Extensions

Hello, I built a WCF Workflow Service App and I built in a custom activity with a required extension in the workflow. In a web app, I'm trying to create a service reference to the WCF workflow service but it says that an extension that is required has not been provided; so how do I consume a service with a required extension? At what ...