.Net Workflow framework with designer

[suityou01]

Does anyone know of a workflow framework that plugs into .Net, hopefully with a designer canvas that allows you to produce an XML based workflow description that would then plug into the engine itself?

Additional but nice to have would be some sort of extensibility layer (read adding javascript to events in the workflow such as "on_node_start" or "on_node_exit" etc etc. Also version control. As I say, nice to have and if not I can roll my own.

TIA

Suity

[russell]

Does anyone know of a workflow framework that plugs into .Net, hopefully with a designer canvas that allows you to produce an XML based workflow description that would then plug into the engine itself?

Additional but nice to have would be some sort of extensibility layer (read adding javascript to events in the workflow such as "on_node_start" or "on_node_exit" etc etc. Also version control. As I say, nice to have and if not I can roll my own.

TIA

Suity

Windows Workflow?

[DimPrawn]

Errr....Windows Workflow Foundation

Or am I missing the point?

[Assassin]

Have you tried to use Workflow Foundation? It have a visual designer .

Regards

[russell]

Have you tried to use Workflow Foundation? It have a visual designer .

Regards

Plenty cheapness.

[suityou01]

Errr....Windows Workflow Foundation

Or am I missing the point?

Quite possibly. From what I read the visual designer is part of the IDE, whereas I want it to be part of the application. Also WWF is part of MOSS whereas I need this to be a forms app. Or am I missing something?

[eek]

Quite possibly. From what I read the visual designer is part of the IDE, whereas I want it to be part of the application. Also WWF is part of MOSS whereas I need this to be a forms app. Or am I missing something?

So you want the users to be able to design a workflow and for that to be added to the system automatically or are you after something else?

If its the former I wish you luck as users will find hundreds of ways to break it.

[suityou01]

So you want the users to be able to design a workflow and for that to be added to the system automatically or are you after something else?

If its the former I wish you luck as users will find hundreds of ways to break it.

Yip it's the former. Bashikly I need to write a custom WIP system that allows the user to design flows. So for example a factory is building a car, and the manager designs the flow

Fit dashboard
Test bulbs
Bulbs ok? (Y/N) - Escalate?

etc etc

And then the WWF engine should adopt the flow automagically. So I need to provide a design app, engine and dashboard.

It looks like WWF designer can be rehosted in your app and I'm just reading about it now.

[DimPrawn]

Yip it's the former. Bashikly I need to write a custom WIP system that allows the user to design flows. So for example a factory is building a car, and the manager designs the flow

Fit dashboard
Test bulbs
Bulbs ok? (Y/N) - Escalate?

etc etc

And then the WWF engine should adopt the flow automagically. So I need to provide a design app, engine and dashboard.

It looks like WWF designer can be rehosted in your app and I'm just reading about it now.

I would have hoped a qualified and experienced engineer designed a car and not a manager.

Sounds like a car crash project with you in drivers seat suity.

[suityou01]

I would have hoped a qualified and experienced engineer designed a car and not a manager.

Sounds like a car crash project with you in drivers seat suity.

Yip it's the former. Bashikly I need to write a custom WIP system that allows the user to design flows. So for example a factory is building a car, and the manager designs the flow

Fit dashboard
Test bulbs
Bulbs ok? (Y/N) - Escalate?

etc etc

And then the WWF engine should adopt the flow automagically. So I need to provide a design app, engine and dashboard.

It looks like WWF designer can be rehosted in your app and I'm just reading about it now.

Should have gone to specsavers?