Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: What about Workflow package?

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2: Re: What about Workflow package? (response to 1)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 01/23/14 09:06 PM
Hi Antonio,

workflow is used a lot with bug-tracker to build finite state machine processes (no parallel workflows). If your process is similar to the linear form use by bug-tracker, you might be able to use it. I've had some success adapting the two packages to work together with some flexibility.
Install the two packages with their dependencies and check out the edit workflow feature.

If you have a more advanced workflow, check out acs-workflow in contrib.

Ryan

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3: Re: What about Workflow package? (response to 2)
Posted by Antonio Pisano on 01/23/14 09:18 PM
Well, what I had in mind requires some parallelism of course:
I won't keep secrets, what I was thinking about was something to manage this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)

No plans right now, but I was thinking it could be a neat product, as stuff around right now is closed source...

By what you say, probably I would need something different, right?

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4: Re: What about Workflow package? (response to 3)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 01/23/14 09:24 PM
Take a look at the acs-workflow package in contrib. It can do parallelism and advanced actions.
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5: Re: What about Workflow package? (response to 3)
Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 01/24/14 09:11 AM
... or look at the xowf package provided by Gustaf.
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6: Re: What about Workflow package? (response to 3)
Posted by Brian Fenton on 01/24/14 11:32 AM
Ciao Antonio

I would definitely recommend acs-workflow. It's a great package which we've used extensively in Quest. I also know that Project Open use the Postgres version a lot too. http://www.project-open.org/en/package_acs_workflow

See this thread for some background http://www.openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=329333

feel free to ask any questions!
a presto
Brian