Hi Tytanix,
Could you give me a link to the webinar you are talking about? I don´t know of a "Feature Panel" in Workdesk. In General, rules can be created in Alfresco and not on the Workdesk side.
Regarding deployment of Workdesk:
There is no need to copy both, war and workdesk folder. You should either use a war file to deploy workdesk or you can copy the workdesk folder, which is already an exploded web archive.
The other files of the Workdesk distribution zip can be helpful too. The javadocs folder contains the javadoc for the Workdesk sources. In the libs folder you will find additional libraries, e.g. required to connect Workdesk with the Activiti workflow engine for example. If you wanted to test this use case with Workdesk, you would have to copy them to the WEB-INF/lib folder of the Workdesk deployment. There should also be a db folder, which contains scripts to create databases and tables for Workdesk, where persistent information in Workdesk can be stored.
Regards,
Dennis