Release notes for version 0.1¶

What's there¶

• working plugin (can be used as a regular plugin as well as run in standalone mode for developing)
• simple demo data (example process, roles, users, etc.) definitions included
• authentication against a self-contained user database
• powerful access-rights mechanism based on global-role/instance-role and code-pattern-matching, and configurable rendering of process variables
• basic variable types (String, Text, Integer, Formula, Sysuser) - extensible by subclassing, template mechanism utilizing inheritance
• mechanism for definition of complex data structures by composition of basic types
• process-definition entities (process consists of variables, activities and transitions between activities), process-instance entities
• basic user interface (starting new processes, filling in variable fields, performing transitions between activities, listing of processes, todo list, simple text searching)
• base for XML export functionality

Missing (planned)¶

• variable types with advanced functionality (HTML text, files, code-lists, arrays, tables etc.)
• validation rules at the process/variable definition level
• deadline rules
• authentication against external systems (e.g. LDAP)
• printing (PDF) engine
• mailer engine
• rule engine
• subprocesses, parallel branches of running activities
• administrator interfaces
• more code comments
• unit and integration tests