[Zope] Programatically creating workflows

ratem at censanet.com.br ratem at censanet.com.br
Thu Feb 19 03:08:31 EST 2004


Dieter,

> >we are starting to work on an extention of SMW CASE tool, and our intention
> is
> >to programatically create Zope workflows from UML State Diagrams. This is a
> >branch of ERP5 project(http://www.erp5.org), but I believe that it can
> >potentially help every CMF developer/user. 
> >
> >I would like to know the steps to programatically create, from Python
> scripts
> >(outside Zope), CMF workflows (inside Zope). Any hint? 
> 
> You use the methods of "DCWorkflowDefinition" and friends to build
> the workflow. This can be done without and outside of Zope.
> 

Thanks one more time, I will check it.

> To access Zope's ZODB from a script running outside of Zope,
> you may want to learn about ZEO.
> 
Maybe is the case of generating a Python script that creates the workflow and
them call them from Zope. We will check!

Regards,

Rogerio Atem

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