Duzenbury, Rich wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I've downloaded swamp, and have it running on a SUSE 9.3 box. It looks > like it can do most everything we want, but I'm a bit curious about how > to extend it. > > > > In our case, we will want to populate some dropdown list boxes from our > database, such that when a workflow begins, the initiator can select > some choices from the dropdown. >
Hi, if I understand you correctly you want to add an enumeration Databit to the workflow with values from an external database which is then used in a dataedit-action so that the user chooses one option. For such special tasks you could use a "custom-action" which is an action that just specifies a class name in the workflow definition that gets executet at that point. In that class you could do the database connection and adding the new databit. The example workflow contains an example for such an action. See also http://swamp.sourceforge.net/index.php?seite=doc2html&docpage=html-adminguide/x96.html#AEN206 > I see there is a script action for a velocity script, but I am unclear > as to how powerful the velocity scripts are. The velocity script actions can only interact with the workflow itself and cannot connect to external systems. Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Internal Tools "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) _______________________________________________ swamp-devel mailing list swamp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/swamp-devel http://swamp.sf.net
