[Zope-CMF] Re: [DCWorkflow] condition on transition action

[Tres Seaver]

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Dieter Maurer wrote:
> yuppie wrote at 2005-6-26 19:32 +0200:
> 
>>...
>>BTW: I'm not at all happy with the worklist Actions.
> 
> 
> They are very useful.
> 
> 
>>They are very 
>>expensive and specialized.
> 
> 
> They can be made *MUCH* faster by using "ZCatalog.searchResults(catalog, ...)"
> rather than "catalog.searchResults(...)" when "catalog" is "portal_catalog".
> 
> The expensive part is the "effective <= now <= expires" subquery
> added by the catalog tool.

For a worklist, that criterion is not even appropriate:  worklists could
quite reasonably contain content which is either not yet effective, or
which has expired.

The general case could be made a great deal more efficient by using a
DateRange index.  I don't think we yet add one by default to the CMF's
catalog: 'effective_range' would be a good name;

>>And they are in the wrong place because they 
>>are often not workflow specific if you have more than one workflow. 
> 
> 
> With this, I agree...
> 
> However, you will loose the workflow integration with respect
> to the "catalog variable"s.
> 
> 
>>Maybe they should be marked as deprecated instead of improved?
> 
> 
> They should be improved and maybe moved out of DCWorkflow.


A worklist query would benefit from a dedicated TopicIndex, as well.


Tres.
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