[Zope3-dev] Re: Workflow UI?

[Jim Fulton]

Julien Anguenot wrote:
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> Jim Fulton wrote:
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>>Roger Ineichen wrote:
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>>>Hi Jim
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>>>I like to work on the activity based wfmc workflow.
>>>Can I help you with the UI work. Do you need some views or something
>>>else for adding workflow definition or instances? Or is there allready
>>>somthing where I didn't see?
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>>I'm not working on a general purpose UI for this.  I have a UI
>>for it that is part of one of our products.  :)
>>
>>To some degree, I think interesting workflow UI's are largely
>>application specific.  If you want to work on a more generic UI
>>you might contribute to the Z3ECM project or work with Stephan.
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> I agree we don't need a  workflow UI on the Zope3 core for the zope.wfmc
> component. The zope.wfmc component should act as a Python wfmc process
> interpretor only.
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> Roger, we'll certainly need UI for the Zope3 / ECM project [1]_
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> .. _[1] http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/browser/z3lab/ecmworkflow/
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> *but* since we are implementing a wfmc standard the UI doesn't need to
> be in Zope. Workflow editors exist :
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> check http://jawe.objectweb.org
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> I think it's a bad idea thinking about Zope persistent definitions at
> this stage. I'd rather work with xpdl files, read them on runtime and
> put them in a *non* persistent XPDL definitions registry. The rest can
> be managed with Jawe for instance.

I assume that Roger was thinking about UI for things like work lists or
work items.

> We are already thinking about an eclipse app wich could be a little bit
> simplier than Jawe for end-users on the long term.

Cool.  I look forward to hearing more.

Jim

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