Designed to speed up implementation of common automation tasks, the kaliop workflow bundle brings together existing technologies (the eZ Platform SignalSlot mechanism and the Kaliop Migrations Bundle) to bring back to eZ one of the few missing functionalities at the core of a modern CMS.

1. Visuel à insérer ici
Powerful
Automation Made
Simple
eZ Conference 2017
London
Gaetano Giunta

2. House rules
A. No slides Few slides
B. Live Demo
C. Please do interact at any time
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3. Once upon a time…
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4. Remember the Good Old Times ?
eZ Publish 4 - circa 2007

5. Remember the Good Old Times ?
eZ Publish 4 - as seen by contemporary developers

6. eZ Publish did have a workflow mechanism
Good
• It was there!
• Good for Content Approval
• Good for Delayed Publication
• Extensible
Bad
• Slow to set up
• Hard to debug
• Not good for CI
• Little functionality by default

7. eZ Publish did have a workflow mechanism
Good Bad
Can we do better ?

8. A Workflow Engine for the Space Age

9. Question Time

10. Demo Time
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11. The fine print
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12. What it can do
• Wait until date
• Manipulation of Content / Location: ALL of it
• Send mail
• Make http calls
• Execute shell commands

13. Easy to Use
• Multiple command line tools
• Information in the debug log
• “References” can be dumped to a file for
inspection

14. Easy to Extend
• To add custom workflow steps all you need is
a tagged service
• Symfony Events are fired for every workflow
step - you can listen to them via tagged
services

15. Needs a little maintenance
• One cronjob to pick up suspended workflows
• One cronjob to cleanup executed workflows

16. Known limitations
• Not based on a State Machine
• No GUI interaction
• eZ5 Signals always trigger After the fact

17. Future Evolutions
• Execute workflows asynchronously
• Branch from one workflow to the other
• Simplify syntax for common cases
• …any suggestion is welcome

18. THANK YOU
github.com/kaliop-uk
@gggeek
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