Creating a workflow and cci

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if someone could help out here. I am in the process of researching workflows and I have download the workflow developers guide which is a good start. What I don't know about is do I need to install Workflow on my interwoven server or is it already part of the product when it was originally set up on our server.

If it is a separate install....how do you install it...or better...how do you check to see if it is already installed on the server?

The reason for the workflow....I have to design a workflow where using a cci to attach a file to a workflow and allow the workflow to bring that file to staging and then email or automatically move it to production. This particular workflow needs to run every day at a certain time and push a file across to the live server.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this...if so please drop me an email or reply to this post....hope to hear from ye soon.

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Migrateduser

You get workflow as part of TeamSite. Just need to do some configuration tweaking if you add custom workflows. From what you are saying, you don't need CCI at all. You simply need an OS scheduler (cron on Unix works just fine) to kick off the process you describe. It is a fairly easy workflow, but that's relative, Sounds like you have no workflow experience, so this is going to seem monumentally difficult for you. I would recommend taking one of Interwoven's workflow courses and also going through the workflow tutorial in the manual. Workflow is not something you can just pick up and run with.

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Migrateduser

What Smitty says is true. At the risk of being bashed, I'm gonna mention a few other things:
1. there is an add-on capability (e.g. installed separately) called WorkflowBuilder. The DevNet community sees limited value in this additional capability, due to the way it handles cgi tasks and perl and other code added into a WF. But it can be an easy way to PLAY with WF before getting down to serious WF development.

If you want to make simple workflows, the new Out of the box workflows are a good way to go (new means 5.5.1 and later). There is good documentation on them, and you can check out the DevNet webcast as well. http://devnet.interwoven.com/site.fcgi/webcasts/index.html

Finally, there are IWOV education courses to consider. See this link. http://www.interwoven.com/services/training/ and select teamsite workflow fundamentals and teamsite workflow developer.

Hope this helps.

lissa