[Zope-CMF] Re: A better CMFworkflow

[seb bacon]

* Shane Hathaway <shane@digicool.com> [010706 04:42]:
> 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.

Yes, I should have made it clear I was referring to the DCWorkflow.  

Ulrich, your use cases are very helpful.  I believe the existing
framework *can* accomodate your requirements, as Shane suggests.  In
the laboratory example, you would start with a Project component
workflow, which has various states.  After it's been created
(approved?) it enters a state which requires the addition of a
Pedigree Set before it can progress.  The pedigree set would have its
own workflow along the same lines.  The groups stuff would be defined
elsewhere via local roles; only 'lab staff' or similar would have the
ability to create Sets to start with.  The Set Workflow could alter
the access permissions on the set depending on its state.

Do you think this would work?

seb