Nuxeo Platform’s Workflow Engine

October 9, 2013 - Alain ESCAFFREThursday, October 17, 13

Small Refresh

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The Workflow in a Nutshell

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‣ A graph-based workflow engine‣ Design in Studio 

‣ Deploy on Nuxeo Platform

‣ Plugged to the form engine

‣ Plugged to Automation

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Main Use Cases

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‣ Simple to complex validation of documents, cases or media assets

‣ Signature workflow

‣ Form digitization

‣ Content-centric organizational processes

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A Dedicated UI

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User Experience

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✓ A new dashboard

✓ Task resolution screen

✓ Multi-color graph

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Features

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✓ Task re-assignment

✓ Task delegation

✓ Parallel review

✓ Automated reminders

✓ Multi-document workflows

✓ Multiple workflows on a document

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Boosting the Engine

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New Nodes

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✓ Sub-workflow

✓ Multi-task nodes

✓ Exclusive node

➡ Enhancement of the expressiveness of the graph

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Escalation Rules

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‣ Useful for;• Task reminders: "Send an email

every two days"

• Forcing task resolution

• More advanced escalation (ex: as soon as 30 % of participants closed their task, go further)

➡ Evaluation of business rules during task execution

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Automation

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• Start, resume, cancel operations

• Start a workflow by passing values for the global variables

• Start a workflow from another one, bind workflows to UI, APIs, etc.

➡ Automated workflow management 

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Comments

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• Easy and standardized way of fetching the comment thanks to the “Task info”

• Drop it on the form as a field system

• Support multi-task node

• Logged on the documents

➡ Comments are part of the framework now

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Demo

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Demo

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• Demo is 100% configured with Nuxeo Studio (no Java development)

• On the theme of Insurance Claim Management

• With some great personas !!!!

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A Wizard Solution!

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Implementing Wizards

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✓ Complex publishing use cases

✓ Complex content authoring

✓ Linked content

➡ Use the workflow to get a conditional form execution engine

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Roadmap

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Your Feedback Is Important

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✓ Documentation is complete

✓ Some tutorials are available

➡ Just try it !

JOIN

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Already in the Pipe

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✓  Workflow and Task REST endpoints

✓  Support for complex variables

✓ Improvements in graph generation

✓  Administration console

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QuestionsCredits: Mariana, Thibaud & Thibaut !

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