I uploaded a simple workflow, and can start it. So now my inbox is
populated
with items. I can proceed, cancel, or reject items. And through a
little
modification of the code extend the context menu and toolbar.
However, I am
a little stuck on how to get a dialog to come up that would present
me with
information from the workflow item, or allow me to stuff
information back
Well .. no nice solution for that yet. The thing is, that we need to
refactor the dialogs for that reason (they are only handling magnolia
like content and quite inflexible).
Current solution
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- write you custom dialog handler where you populate the dialog using
the info in the workitem
- use a different save handler to write the values back to the
workitem instead to a node
Future solutions
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A) We store the workitems in the magnolia way (same structure as
paragraphs) this allows to use the dialogs to manipulate them
(currently they are stored unfortunately as plain xml)
B) We refactore the dialogs so that they read and store from any
object (discussed here since a long time)
C) Support the solution above (deliver such a dialog and save handler
implementation)
B is planed for 3.5 and A) would be wise anyway. C) could get done if
you help to implement it
Nicolas & John: what do you think about A) should we enforce that? I
think there are other use-cases where we would like to have that
Philipp Bracher
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