[Openflow-dev] Re: Idea for automatic activities

[<jm...@so...>]

Vicenzo wrote:

> > a new thread is created,
> What do you mean with that? maybe "the activity application is started"?

Yes.

I supposed that opening a thread for launching the application was
the correct way, because Xron does this (??)

> > and the url in the field "activity"
> There is no such field. Do you mean the activity "application" field?

Yes


> > is open (like it is done in the Xron product).
> Do you mean "is started"? Xron does not work properly (on my zope) and I
> don't know what you are thinking about.

Yes, also in mine. Xron works well for me running zope as a user, but not
as root.



In fact, the idea I think is true and must be applied in the real life, is
that a manual activity can be automatized.

For example, I define a process with manual activities, I do manually
while I am developping some tools for doing it automatic. That is very
powerfull, because my process can start working (a kind of "fast
developpment) with a slow load, while I am developping the automatic
product, which I will put in activity to have a faster machine (process).
Suppose that something this automatic product is failing: I can allways
go back to manual (and sleeping less :-)
I am thinking in the workflow of an e-commerce enterprise, a
process is a glue for the software modules: accounting, web, etc...


A difference is: while an employee must do its work, how do I know that an
automatic activity is not "dead" ?? But this is another problem.

> > And then, maybe this activity could be
> > marked as "pending" (???).
>
> "pending"? There is no such marking for an activity. Tokens might be
> pending on an activity, meaning that they are waiting to complete the
> activity application. What do you mean?

Yes,
Token pending for this activity


> > In fact, there is not difference with a normal activity, because the
> > workflow is still waiting for an external "moveto" signal to do somethi=
ng.
> Uh? Do you mean that:
(...)
No sorry, I was talking about "my" vision, which seems to be the same than
yours. I have not yet tried last version of Openflow (0.4) which has
automatic activities I think.


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