WorkFlow: Need Guidance

Looking for documents or guide to know more about the perl modules used for the workflow development, Also will be really helpful if any one give me a road map for learning workflow 2003...!

Thanks in Advance, and " !.. Wish you all Happy New Year ..!"

-mv

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akshathp

Details about Workflow PERL mudules are given in Workflow Developer's Guide. It talks about subs that can be used to get information for worklfow custom scripts.

Hope this helps!

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

Migrateduser

You can get details regard these -- and most other -- Perl modules by using the perldoc command. Example:

perldoc TeamSite::WFtask
(assuming that you have iw-home/iw-perl/bin in your PATH.

You can also find this information on our support site. Click on the "support" link at the top of this page, and then after logging in click on the "Perldocs" link.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

Migrateduser

Interwoven should definitely not tout that perldoc will provide good documentation for their perl modules, as the pod documentation provided is weak at best. This is typical of how all the workflow documentation is. For example, do a "perldoc WFtask" and you get brilliant information like this:

GetState()
Returns the state of this task
IsValid()
Returns true if this is a valid task

Wouldn't it be nice if this fantastic documentation also let you know what values a "state" could possibly be? Or what a "valid" task is? Or an "invalid" task?

Interwoven should be working diligently to make this documentation thorough and complete, and also to not have it scattered all over the place. It should be in the Workflow Developer's Guide.

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Migrateduser

This is funny. The listing of methods in the limited list of modules provided in the Workflow Developer's Guide is way out of date. This is old documentation that no one thought to update as these modules grew over time. And they simply are a cut-and-paste of typing in "perldoc module". If only it was accurate. But even then it's still very poor documentation.

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com