Workflow Package Overview

By Lars Pind on 31 August 2000.

The workflow package provides infrastructure to coordinate the work of multiple persons working on the same project.

Overview: Why should I care about workflow? Business managers and developers will find the answer here.
Concepts Guide: Is the starting point. It explains what the workflow package does and provides the knowledge necessary to formalize workflow processes using this package.
Concepts Reference: Once you've read the concepts guide, you can use this for reference.
Future Plans: Tentative plans for future enhancements to the package.
Support Information: Where to turn if you get stuck or get brilliant.

Installation and Getting Started Guide: How you get started working with the OpenACS Workflow package.
Advanced Workflow Builder's Guide (missing): A guide for those formally defining a workflow process. This is necessary to do in order to take advantage of the workflow package. This is for building advanced workflows where you'll need (and want) know how the engine operates.

Developer's Guide: Contains information for developers on how to build applications that deploy the workflow package.
Maintainer's Guide (in progress): Contains information on the internals of this package for developers wanting to extend or maintain the workflow package itself.
Requirements Document: The requirements specification for the Workflow package.
Design Document: The design document for the Workflow package.

Last Modified: $Date: 2002/07/09 17:35:01 $