[Zope-PTK] Member Publishing

Shane Hathaway shane@digicool.com
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:17:29 -0500


Renato De Giovanni wrote:
> > The transitions table of the state-machine screen should be
> > dropped, and transitions out of a state should be added from
> > within that state's edit screen.
> 
> Maybe we can have transition tables in both places? I like the possibility to have
> the whole picture of a workflow in only one interface (if we can't have those
> beautiful graphic representations with circles and arrows, let us keep at least the
> "global view").

Perhaps the state machine view should have a list of states, each state
having three indented lists: transitions leaving the state, transitions
entering the state, and transitions that stay in the same state.

> You guys really like the idea of sub-workflows... Well, nothing against them, I just
> don't see where they'll be essential. In case of implementing this feature, Michael's
> idea above seems very interesting.

It is my own observation that there are many ways to model a given
workflow and that each of us might come up with a different way.  Since
it is an easy way to model some systems, I think sub-workflows are
important.

Shane