[Zope-PTK] Member Publishing

Shane Hathaway shane@digicool.com
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:21:26 -0500


Kent Polk wrote:
> What type of object/transition tracking mechanism are you planning
> for this?

An attribute of portal content objects called workflow_status will hold
workflow state.  The list of transitions is read from the state
machines.

> Do you mean a state machine creation interface for a programmer or
> a user? (or both?) I think we need both, for different types of
> workflows.

True.

> What type of mechanism would you use to trigger the state transition?
> Rule-based or requirements-based or what? Would the current state
> determine the transition or would a transition-manager?

The user actions, like approving or editing a document, are the
transitions.

Shane