topic Re: Is Workflow Appropriate Solution in Alfresco Archive

Is Workflow Appropriate Solution

vbfischer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:15:48 GMT

I have a long running task that a user will be able to kick off from a document in the web browser. Since this process can take around 20 minutes to complete, I want this to be an asynchronous process. Just for context, these are the steps:1. User kicks off a publish process2. Process performs some

Re: Is Workflow Appropriate Solution

mrogers — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:50:43 GMT

Another choice is an async action.

What drives the choice between using actions or workflow is whether there is any "worlflow" involved. It sounds to me like your case would be better handled by an action.

Re: Is Workflow Appropriate Solution

vbfischer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:29:31 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply.

I had a feeling that's what would be suggested… I had thought about that before, but somehow missed the ExecuteAsynchronously attribute.

Thanks