[Zope-CMF] Getting state title in DCWorklow

[Florent Guillaume]

I understand that most of the action happens in the transition, but
nevertheless, as tried to point out, the Expression context could use
some additional info for cases like getInfoFor.

Florent


> > Hmmm general question : any reason the Expression context is very
> > transition-oriented and not state-oriented ?
> >
> > In getCatalogVariablesFor and in getInfoFor we create an Expression
> > context which (obviously) has no transition info. It would be useful in
> > this situation to bind a variable like 'state', to be able to 
> > access the
> > current state. Should I write a patch ?
> 
> Because (I believe), the changes to the status occurs on 
> transitions.  For example, I've been working on a rather complex 
> task/project/billing system and have written two custom workflows 
> (both in Python).  Some of the "internal" states can be repeated - 
> a task can go from "In Progress" to "In Progress".
> 
> Having the status memory on the transitions allows me to have a 
> history where a user can basically add continue to add comments 
> while keeping the object in the "In Progress" state.
> 
> The transitions can host lots of interesting information - the 
> actor, the time the transition was done, etc.  You can't really 
> relate this to State itself. ie - "Jeffrey set the task to 
> Cancelled at 4:25 pm"
> 
> I hope this message makes some sense.  I've had my brain tied in 
> knots for most of the week working on these workflows (but I do 
> have some pretty diagrams to show for it!) and am ready to go home 
> and gaze longingly at my skis and pray for snow.
> 
> Jeffrey P Shell, jeffrey@cuemedia.com
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