A better CMFworkflow (was: Re: [Zope-CMF] Re: Our CMF-CMS Demo .. needs a workflow)

Shane Hathaway shane@digicool.com
Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:36:30 -0400


Ulrich Eck wrote:
> I have talked a lot with kent polk about a better workflow for Zope/CMF.
> 
> A Content Management System as well as any other larger CMF-Site
> will benefit from a better workflow.

Ulrich,

I encourage you to try out the DCWorkflow product.  Although it's still
in its infancy, it provides a good way to implement everything you
listed.  It is not shipped with CMF yet.  It was developed based on
PTK/CMF community feedback that was remarkably similar to yours.

The feature of binding types to workflow definitions is *specifically*
designed to make sub-workflows and multiple simultaneous workflows
possible... and maybe even easy.

If you disagree, however, just make your own portal_workflow tool.  You
don't even have to change the CMF source.  The binding of type to
workflow is only an assumption that the default portal_workflow makes
and nothing else in CMF depends on it.  Really!

Shane