Workflow

Are there any resource sites for Workflow-driven apps? Someplace that has pre-built workflow sub-modules, recipes, exported views or panels ready for import, etc?

I'd like to have flexibility both with interactive WF state tools (used by privileged roles who push content through the states) and in displaying tables of WF content. But I haven't found any prepackaged stuff, and rolling my own seems like it's very complicated and full of pitfalls (due to my limited knowledge).

I've been looking at the Workflow module and like what I see.

However, I can imagine the following scenario:

• Item goes through normal workflow (author -> editor -> published).
• Item needs revision.

OK, now I have a problem. The item is live, perhaps in a featured position on the site, yet it needs to be updated, and the update needs to go through an editorial review process.

How do I do that, without having to create a new node? Has anybody crossed this bridge?

While the more expansive workflow features that were proposed did not make it in time for code freeze, we still have an opportunity during the current "code slush" period to make a few key alterations to the underlying Drupal database. This will enable further development in Contrib of comprehensive workflow and content moderation modules, with an eye towards D8. However, time is running out. After October 15, all hope is lost.

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Please comment on how you are invoking email notifications, in general and for taxonomy subscriptions. Does anyone see a problem with workflow and drupal access model and/or 3rd party modules that supply that type of functionality?

With workflow, the natural point at which an announcement notification message should be sent is when the content changes to a certain workflow state -- e.g. "Posted". And the tools I see available for this task range from "send a tokenized email to a role" via the Token module (token_action.module) to the Subscriptions module.

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I searched for this kind of features, but haven't found any suitable solutions. There is need to display workflow state information and instructions at node page. Ofcourse, there is wonderful Rules module, and I could use it's "show system message" action. Hovewer I find using Rules with Panels is too embarassing: event "content is going to be viewed" is not fired at all, and "user is going to view page" has too few things to work with. To use Rules for this, one would have to use too many PHP, which I think is killing the purpose of Rules

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Hi all,

Is it possible to create a workflow in an installation profile? I have code that works perfectly in a normal context, but fails to function when I run it in my installation profile.

When I dig down into the code, it appears that drupal_write_record inside the workflow_create() function fails to write the record, after which of course nothing else can work.

I've tried to include various .inc files like database.inc and common.inc to no avail. Other database functions like db_query() seem to work just fine.

Any clues appreciated!

Tom