Dear Community,
when starting working with FirstSpirit 5 the following both topics will indeed appear in combination:
- ElementStatusProvider / WorkflowGroupProvider
- Workflows modelled based on FirstSpirit FS 4.2 R4
The big question is:
- how to combine these two in a correct way?
- is there a need to adapt existing workflows to work with a custom ElementStatus- respectively WorkflowGroupProvider?
- how to keep both in sync, e.g. when switching workflow transitions?
What has to be considered when using a custom "ElementStatus-"/"WorkflowGroupProvider" and a FirstSpirit workflow. According to your ODFS section:
When designing page status algorithms, workflow groups (from which ContentCreator identifies sets of available workflow activities - see Workflow Grouping below) and page status should be kept compatible: if the page status "In workflow" is displayed, it is recommended that at least one of the workflow groups offers a workflow task which can be advanced to another task or resolve the web page's "In Workflow" status.
How can that be achieved? Example or pseudo code might be interesting.
