In the past year, Nuxeo has greatly extended the feature set of its workflow engine to include sub-workflows, escalation, re-assignment, parallel tasks, configurable dashboards, and a new resolution screen. We will review what's been added with a complete example and also talk about the roadmap of the product.

1. Nuxeo Platform’s Workflow
Engine
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2. Small Refresh
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3. The Workflow in a Nutshell
‣ A graph-based workflow
engine
‣
Design in Studio
‣
Deploy on Nuxeo Platform
‣ Plugged to the form
engine
‣ Plugged to Automation
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4. Main Use Cases
‣ Simple to complex
validation of documents,
cases or media assets
‣ Signature workflow
‣ Form digitization
Section
Label
Label
ADD
OK
‣ Content-centric
organizational processes
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5. A Dedicated UI
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6. User Experience
✓ A new dashboard
✓ Task resolution screen
✓ Multi-color graph
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7. Features
✓ Task re-assignment
✓ Task delegation
✓ Parallel review
✓ Automated reminders
✓ Multi-document
workflows
✓ Multiple workflows on a
document
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8. Boosting the Engine
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9. New Nodes
➡ Enhancement of the expressiveness
of the graph
✓ Sub-workflow
✓ Multi-task nodes
✓ Exclusive node
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10. Escalation Rules
➡
Evaluation of business rules during
task execution
‣ Useful for;
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Task reminders: "Send an email
every two days"
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Forcing task resolution
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More advanced escalation (ex:
as soon as 30 % of participants
closed their task, go further)
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11. Automation
➡ Automated workflow management
• Start, resume, cancel operations
• Start a workflow by passing values for
the global variables
• Start a workflow from another one, bind
workflows to UI, APIs, etc.
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12. Comments
➡ Comments are part of the framework now
• Easy and standardized way of fetching
the comment thanks to the “Task info”
• Drop it on the form as a field system
• Support multi-task node
• Logged on the documents
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13. Demo
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14. Demo
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Demo is 100% configured
with Nuxeo Studio (no Java
development)
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On the theme of Insurance
Claim Management
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With some great
personas !!!!
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15. A Wizard Solution!
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16. Implementing Wizards
➡ Use the workflow to get a conditional
form execution engine
✓ Complex publishing use
cases
✓ Complex content
authoring
✓ Linked content
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17. Roadmap
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18. Your Feedback Is Important
✓ Documentation is
complete
JOIN
✓ Some tutorials are
available
➡ Just try it !
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19. Already in the Pipe
✓ Workflow and Task
REST endpoints
✓ Support for complex
variables
✓ Improvements in graph
generation
✓ Administration console
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Questions
Credits: Mariana, Thibaud & Thibaut !
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