On 4/14/05, Martin Kal�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: > > I eventually want a Forrest site that is contained in Slide that has a > > workflow engine built on top. It seems that plugging Forrest and > > Slide wouldn't be that difficult but I also want it to follow some > > sort of workflow which neither has built in. > > Workflow means a lot of different things to different people, > could you specify a bit more what you mean?
I'm thinking something fairly simple. I'm clearly no expert in either CMS or WFE's so my terminology coule be a bit off but something like: o) A document has multiple "states" -- new, in-edit, in-review, published o) A simple "routing" logic associated with child nodes of the "site" element of site.xml in Forrrest. o) Obviously some sort of permissions associated with the routing logic above (e.g., person X has the ability to create new content and Person Y can "publish" that content. I guess all and all, I like the workflow inside Lenya but need something that's independent of the web interface -- so that I can use a real authoring tool like Epic or Spy. I'm not sure how the notification would happen -- maybe email or a web-based queue. I've got a rough idea of what's needed but flexible enough to use what's out there (if anything). > > > Have > > I overlooked something or is this just something that's generally not > > needed or expected that a CMS would have to build on top of the > > repository? > > At my day-job company we have a CMS using Slide as repository impl > and Cocoon as presentation engine. This particular CMS uses Cocoon > Flow-script for the controller logic and the workflow processing > is mostly implemented in Cocoon Flow (with some sanity checks > in the Java Repository integration code on top of Slide). > ... > There are many XML-standards for process descriptions and > advanced engines to handle them. A quick google led to: > http://web.openwfe.org/display/openwfe/Home I'll take a look at that, thanks. Can I ask what CMS you use on top of Slide at work? Thanks, --tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
