R U Using Workflowbuilder?

nico

I'm new to workflow development and by reading several of these posts, I don't see much mention of workflow builder. Seems like a really good R.A.D. tool for busting out workflows, but in real practice are any of you using it? And your feedback as to why or why not would also be helpful.

Thanks,
Nico

nipper

Do you still prgram is Basic ?

I think not.

Actually WFB can be used as a decent starting point. Something to build up tthe XML in a reasonably structured way. It can get you 60-80% of the way there.

The problem with WFB is two fold. First it cannot do everything. Thus when you need to do some other stuff that is common in WF you start hacking Perl/XML yourself. At that point WFB is unusable since you cannot bring those changes back into WFB. An example of a task that WFB cannot (or could not before, have not tried lately) do is: If the file submitted looks like this (type directory, name , etc) bypass this approval step. 10 minutes worth of Perl/XML hacking (if condition in perl change timeout to 0) .

Second WFB is helpful for initial development (building XML) but it is cumbersome for debugging and incremental development.

But the most important reason not to use WFB is the ridicule you will receive on DevNet. :-)

HTH

Andy