Re: [eGroupWare-developers] Workflow module for E-Groupware

[Ralf B. <rb...@st...>]

VFS class no longer exists in EGroupware 1.6+.

I dont know anything about workflow ...

Ralf

sel schrieb:
> I want to integrate workflow module to EGroupware 1.6. and when i install it
> , it make me an Error:
> 
> CreateObject('phpgwapi.vfs'): Cant instanciate class!!!
> require_one(\workflow\inc\engine\config.egw.inc.php) /
> include_once(\workflow\inc\class.workflow_gui.inc.php) /
> CreateObject(workflow.workflow_gui) / ui_userprocesses::ui_userprocesses /
> CreateObject(workflow.ui_userprocesses) /
> ExecMethod(workflow.ui_userprocesses.form) 
> 
> Please Help me.
> 
> Nathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> On 1-Sep-09, at 3:56 AM, Jonathan Peyrot wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I started to work with Galaxy, the workflow module integrated in
>>> E-Groupware, but it's not very useful and it's complicated...
>>> So, I found an other Workflow engine : ProcessMaker
>>> (http://www.processmaker.com).
>>> It's a good software with a lot of Ajax.
>>> It's maybe a good idea to integrated this product in the next  
>>> version of
>>> E-Groupware because a lot of company need a tool like this...
>>>
>>> What do you think about that ?
>>
>> I agree that it is complicated, but I disagree that it is not very  
>> useful.  Once set up, it's quite powerful, and very useful.
>> Most of its power comes from re-usable agents you write to take  
>> actions for you at an activity.  There just aren't that many general  
>> usage agents.
>>
>> projectERP uses Workflow to guide manufacturing processes, which is a  
>> little more restricted than credit applications and such.  At each  
>> activity, a build agent pulls the inventory and adds it to the work  
>> order, which shuffles a bunch of money around.  I've got XML-RPC  
>> methods to move the work order (instance) from activity to activity  
>> using scanners.  I have a custom UI that displays the current  
>> activities of each work order.
>>
>> ProcessMaker is certainly pretty, and it does look a lot easier to  
>> create a workflow.  Manually drawing the graph obviously gives more  
>> control over the layout.  That form builder
>> (http://www.processmaker.com/demo-design-dynaforms/ 
>> ) is some nice stuff.  Looks like eTemplate editor on AJAX.  It looks  
>> like the sort of thing that could be useful without a programmer, and  
>> I understand why that would be attractive to many organizations.  The  
>> actual creating of the workflow is the hardest part.
>>
>> Since it has already been integrated with openbravo,
>> (http://www.processmaker.com/mashups/ 
>> ) it's obviously possible, but it looks more like two separate systems  
>> that are tied together, rather than an actual integration.  There's a  
>> lot of "Head back to openbravo, let's go back to ProcessMaker" in that  
>> video.  I don't consider that integration, that's playing nice  
>> together, which is not nearly as useful.
>>
>> Integrating an application into eGroupWare (properly) is a little  
>> complicated, because in order to harness the power of eGroupWare, you  
>> need to be able to tie into the linking and hooking systems, and fit  
>> into the framework.  Workflow doesn't link, but it does hook, so other  
>> applications can provide their own agents without needing to change  
>> code.
>>
>> As a developer who does use workflow, to be honest I don't really care  
>> what the backend is, because I've layered my own frontend on top.  The  
>> only requirements I have for a replacement are
>> - access for other code to move instances along between activities
>> - can run without a user interface
>> - equivalent of agents to take automatic action
>>
>>
>> Nathan Gray
>> nathan at goarctic dot com
>>
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