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Contents

About This Book

Purpose
Audience
Prerequisites

Part I    Concepts

Chapter 1    About Workflow

What is workflow?
Workflow subsystem architecture
Business and presentation logic
Workflow queue
Workflow engine
Workflow Designer
Administration tools
Samples

Chapter 2    Basic Workflow Development

About the development process
Workflow subsystem components
About the workflow client
How the client works
Developing the client
Workitem life cycle
Design options
Working with properties
Working with documents
Binding activities to client types
Reassigning workitems

Chapter 3    Sample Workflow Application

About the Issue Tracking application
Installation and setup
Starting the workflow engine
Deploying the application
Adding users to your server realm
Running Issue Tracking
Starting a process
Completing the workitems
How the application was built
List of application sources
Defining the process
About the process
Building the client
Client API classes
About the WorkflowStartProcess component
About the WorkflowQueue component
Defining the workitem
Binding an activity to a client
Administering workflow

Chapter 4    Customizing Activities and Links

Writing an automatic activity
Coding the automatic activity
Customizing runtime behavior for an activity
Coding the activity
Customizing runtime behavior for a link
Coding the link

Part II    Tools

Chapter 5    Workflow Designer

About Workflow Designer
Summary of Workflow Designer features
Defining a process
Working with the editing features
Graphing environment
Using layout features
Using zoom features
Using the grid
Using the Overview window
Using labels
Defining activities
Start activity
User activity
Automatic activity
Synchronize merge activity
Web Service activity
Rule activity
Finish activity
Defining links
Simple link
AND link
OR link
XOR link
XOR condition link
Rule link
Adding Rule subsystem extensions to the Workflow Designer

Chapter 6    Workflow Administration

Using the workflow administration components
Engine and Queue Administration Console
Workflow administration client
Auditing runtime processes
Generating runtime exception reports

Part III    Reference

Chapter 7    Workflow Tag Library

addressee
Syntax
Example
createProperty
Syntax
Example
forwardWorkitem
Syntax
Example
getDocument
Syntax
Example
getProcessList
Tag options
Syntax
Example
getProperty
Syntax
Example
getPropertyList
Syntax
Examples
getQueueStatus
Syntax
Example
getWorkitem
Syntax
Example
getWorklist
Tag options
Syntax
Examples
hasDocument
Syntax
Example
hasProperty
Syntax
Example
isDocumentLocked
Syntax
Example
isWorkitemLocked
Syntax
Example
setProperty
Syntax
Example
startProcess
Syntax
Example
updateDocument
Syntax
Examples
workitemLock
Syntax
Examples
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