[Zope-CMF] Workflow - employee supervisor relationship?

[Florent Guillaume]

Dieter Maurer  <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:
> vsbabu@vsbabu.org writes:
>  >   I'm thinking about whether it is easily possible to create a workflow
>  >   in a CMF site that mimics the traditional employee-supervisor one.
>  > 
>  >   I had implemented it before using SQL databases, but would like to start
>  >   thinking the "Zope" way :-)
>  > 
>  >   An employee might be a supervisor and has one and only one supervisor.
>  >   A supervisor can have more than one employees under him/her.
>  > 
>  >   If something has to be approved by supervisor, s/he gets that in her 
>  >   worklist. S/he should be able to delegate upwards/downwards when necessary
>  >   - like when s/he is on vacation, if upward delegate has happened, then
>  >   supervisor's supervisor should get the approval notice.
> Excluding the delegation, it would be easy for DCWorkflow.
> 
> Worklists are quite simplistic: they are simple queries against
> the catalog with constant query terms. This can not handle
> delegation.
> 
> But, I have extended the DCWorkflow worklists by query terms
> defined through tales expressions. With this, you can
> implement delegation, too.
> 
> Maybe, the NUXWorkflow, a DCWorkflow extension, supports this, too.

Actually it doesn't.

But really, woklists as you said are global queries, which could very
well make, as complicated as you want, outside of the workflow.

Florent
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