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Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

activiti-admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:25:16 GMT

The more complex - respectively, long-running - processes are, the more end users (actors) want to be informed about the current process' state. They need detailed information about which activities are to be resolved, which actors will be responsible for progressing a critical process (in order to

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

activiti-admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:32:53 GMT

and (b) providing documentation and plugin APIs for Activiti modeler.

Sorry, typo. - Not Actititi Modeler needs to be documented for that matter, but Activiti Explorer.

That's because almost any software provider that's using Activiti Explorer will want to customize that application.

Thanks

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

tombaeyens — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:21:54 GMT

There are a lot of interesting suggestions here. Can you share the background of your interest in Activiti?

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

wir33658 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:40:18 GMT

As I asked in another post already, I totally agree with the guest to have a graphical representation of the the actual running process state is extremly crucial.

My background is from the automation in semiconductor industries, where processes running quite some time and the process engineers NEED to know at which state the process is at the moment. It does not help them to say, "well, its somewhere but we cannot not see it".

So, I am pretty sure to have this feature available with Activit would lift it up a lot (because imagine you are able to model it graphically but being not able to see the recent process state graphically; its not possible to sell — actually I am wondering, since some of you guys come from the jBPM background, where it was possible, to a certain degree, to do this).

Cheers, Rob.

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

bernd_ruecker — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:36:44 GMT

Hey Rob.

Maybe you got the wqrong impression. This feature is for sure on the roadmap of activiti! I see it crucial as well. So don't worry, just give us some time 😉

Cheers
Bernd

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

wir33658 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:34:02 GMT

Hey Rob.

Maybe you got the wqrong impression. This feature is for sure on the roadmap of activiti! I see it crucial as well. So don't worry, just give us some time 😉

Cheers
Bernd

Bernd, sounds great, do you have any idea when this might be happening ?

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

activiti-admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:13:45 GMT

Soon, I'd suppose. :mrgreen:

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

tombaeyens — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:46:36 GMT

Definitely soon! 😉
We should have this in the next 2 months.

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

activiti-admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:27:35 GMT

Great news between the roadmap's lines.

When do you expect the "graphical process status" feature to become documented then? - In other threads, they're currently wondering about "how to implement something like Activiti Explorer myself", not to mention "how to customize Activiti Explorer".

There's absolutely no documentation on all that. - The problem there is, the different pieces of logic for a single process are dispersed in different layers, including Java, AJAX, and JavaScript. And therefore, those layer's interactions would really need to be documented. For a start, an overview in 200 words and a couple of links to external documentation might do that.

Re: Graphical Representation, Signavio Activity, Activiti Explor

wir33658 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:36:43 GMT

Definitely soon! 😉
We should have this in the next 2 months.

Tom, that sounds promising. Keep on rocking ;-).

Cheers, Rob.