On 13 dec 2007, at 12:51, Laurence Rowe wrote:
Danny Bloemendaal wrote:
I truely think that this isn't as trivial as it may seem. Is it
only a UI issue? I know plone relies on several locations for the
review_state attribute. What if an object has several states (which
is possible if you have multiple workflows assigned)? Aren't there
configlets that allow you to do things with this attribute like the
navtree? What about worklists? I think that when we agree that an
object can have more than one states, we have to support it
everywhere in a concise way. I want to see a list of all the
locations and situations where this may be an issue. Is the code
truely multiple-state/transition aware? It's not only changing
content_status_modify in my opinion. The state change drop-down
should also show that there are more workflows and perhaps group
the transitions per-state.
So, my point is: we either do it right or we don't do it at all :)
And for now: +0
Danny.
We already do it, just not very well ;-) In 3.0 it works so long as
you keep your transition ids unique across workflows. Catalogued
workflow variables are calculated so that the first in the chain
takes precedence, so nothing breaks here.
Are worklists still used in Plone? They are a per workflow feature
of DCWorkflow anyway, so are not affected.
I don't think so. But I more mean things like portlets, various
interfaces where you can pick a wf-state etc. You don't want to not
show-up a set of wf-states in one location while in other places you
can see them.
Workflow actions are already grouped as the actions are calculated
sequentially from workflows. It would be nice to have a separator
and a workflow title shown too, but I'm not sure what this should
look like UI wise. How about this?
-----------
Workflow 1
Submit
Approve
-----------
Workflow 2
Confirm
Reject
-----------
Advanced...
Something like that or perhaps another expand level in the menus.
Also, something that came to my mind is that the workflow configlet
has to be aware of this as well. I'm not sure what the problems may be
but it allows you to reassign new states to objects if you switch to
another workflow.
Danny.
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