Overview of Workflow functionality in OroPlatform and OroCRM. Demo bundle is accessible here: https://github.com/yshyshkin/DemoWorkflowBundle

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Oro Workflows
Yevhen Shyshkin
yshyshkin@orocrm.com
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2. Definition
Workflow - the sequence of industrial,
administrative, or other processes through
which a piece of work passes from
initiation to completion.
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4. Responsibility
● define procedural step for an entity
● transition between steps
● change entity properties in transition
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5. Components
● Step — workflow state of an entity
● Transition — move between steps
● Attribute — field of an entity
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6. Components
Transition X
Step A Step B
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute 3
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7. Components
● Condition — rule that allows transition
● Action — additional operation to execute
during transition
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8. Components
Transition X
Step A Step B
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attributes
Execute
actions
Attribute 1
Attribute 2
Attribute 3
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9. Configuration
● stored in YAML format in
Resources/config/workflow.yml
● contains full defition of all workflow
components
● loaded using CLI command
oro:workflow:definitions:load
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11. Demo example
https://github.com/yshyshkin/DemoWorkflowBundle
cd <project_path>/src
mkdir Acme
cd Acme
git clone git@github.com:yshyshkin/DemoWorkflowBundle.git
cd DemoWorkflowBundle
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12. Tips and Tricks
● actions and conditions can be created or
overriden using DI tags
● ACL can be checked on transition level or
using special condition
● transition may have custom form type and
template
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13. Coming soon...
● UI improvement
● action availability on a step level
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14. Questions & Answers
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