Galaxia Workflow Engine

Posted by Georger Araujo 17 Jun 2005 12:35 GMT-0000

> Hello Georger,
>
> I'm Yann. I work for a French university. Your example is very interesting. I made a workflow for university use too. I work on Tiki 1.8.5. at first. In this version, does non-interactive activities not work because allow_url_fopen in php.ini is originally at off ?
>
> Here is what workflow I made. Students go in stage and have 6 rapports to make.
> -A student upload his first rapport.
> -His teacher his warned and has to approve or reject the rapport.
> -If the rapport his rejected, the sutdent read teacher comments and upload a new rapport.
> -The teacher can approuve it or reject it again.
> -If he approves it, he have to comment it and the boss of the student (in his stage) receive a warning and can read the rapport and comment it.
> -The student can upload rapport 2.
>
> Yann

Hi Yann,
it's good to get your positive feedback
Yes, non-interactive activities fail on 1.8.5 because the URL is malformed. It's been a while since I last worked on 1.8.5, but I believe there's an excess 'amp' or something. Anyway, it's fixed in 1.9.0. I suggest you upgrade, because the Galaxia code has been improved, the interface is better, and you won't have to integrate/backport any new 1.9.0 code. I myself have already submitted a few bug reports and patches on the SourceForge project page, and they're all for 1.9.0.
As for your workflow, it looks interesting, but I think it will need some outside resource - as far as I know Galaxia doesn't offer any job scheduling capabilities, and I guess you'll have to set up a cron-scheduled script that will run a query on your database and send an email based on the result. There's a nice example featuring this type of interaction on moses's CVSUP script - take a look here to get both the XML process definition and the script. Regards,

Georger