Forum OpenACS Development: workflow?

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1: workflow?
Posted by David Kuczek on 05/25/04 12:32 PM
If I recall correctly I read somewhere on the forums that the workflow package has been deprecated... How come?

Cheers

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2: Re: workflow? (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 05/25/04 03:03 PM
The acs-workflow package was deprecated. It should still be available in /contrib, but it is not maintained.

A replacement package with a well definied tcl api called "workflow" is part of OpenACS now.

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3: Re: workflow? (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 05/25/04 03:16 PM
I was browsing the docs, but couldn't find the documentation for workflow. I only found acs-workflow:

https://openacs.org/xowiki/acs-workflow

Does this simulation represent the current workflow package:

https://openacs.org/doc/current/simulation/internals.html ???

Cheers

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4: Re: workflow? (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 05/25/04 03:23 PM
David,

Ah. Unfortunately the package docs from the the OpenACS intstallation which is too old to have the workflow package on  openacs.org.

It is something we need to generally address to make the package docs publically available.

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5: Re: workflow? (response to 1)
Posted by Mark Aufflick on 05/25/04 05:52 PM
Hi David,

you might find a slide set I wrote for a lecture last year helpful:

http://pumptheory.com/collaboration/open-acs/lectures/openacs-workflow/

also, the original design spec for workflow:

http://www.collaboraid.biz/developer/workflow-spec

Also you can (inconveniently) browse the docs for an up to date workflow package via the cvs browser:

http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/openacs-4/packages/workflow/www/doc/

eg: the developer docs:

http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/*checkout*/openacs-4/packages/workflow/www/doc/developer-guide.html