The development of the graphical workflow editor for AlphaFlow is based on the diploma thesis of Róman Joost. The thesis covers the feasibility of building a graphical workflow editor. One of the key requirements are platform independence and a usable product, which includes the usage of usability methods and tests.

System Requirements

• Client: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 beta or better
• Server: GraphViz 2.2 or better

Current Status

Note, the current implementation is not intended for productive use.
You can checkout the current development status from the gocept SVN:

 svn co https://svn.gocept.com/repos/gocept/AlphaFlow/branches/roman-editor_xul_integration AlphaFlow

The graphical editor makes heavily use of XUL.

• Creating new workflow definitions
• Saving workflow definitions in AlphaFlow XML
• Adding new Activities
• Modifying workflow properties such as title, description and start_activities

• Connecting activities
• Zoom
• Modifying activity properties

Contact

If you would like to get more information or want to help contact:
Róman Joost (rj@gocept.com)

Diploma thesis

The diploma thesis features a feasability study on a graphical workflow editor and is available in two formats:

• HTML
• PDF
  

Acknowledgements

The usability tests where accompanied by Ellen Reitmayr from Relevantive AG.

Screenshots

The screenshots showing the XUL based UI of the graphical editor.