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danielgerlag / workflow-core

Lightweight workflow engine for .NET Standard
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[Question] Is it possible to use WorkflowCore with separate diagramming tool? #614

Closed cryo75 closed 4 years ago

cryo75 commented 4 years ago

I'm looking in implementing workflow management into my app. My app consists of an ASP.Net WebApi2 server and a .Net 4.8 Winforms client.

Currently I am building a diagramming tool which simply allows me to add shapes and connections and store the diagram info as xml. I would like to keep this tool. Now I need to extend this tool to support workflows.

So I came across WorkflowCore and it looks very interesting. My idea would be to only use WorkflowCore to build and execute workflows. I would need to map / translate my diagram to WorkflowCore workflows. I can do my own persistence, but if WorkflowCore has this option that allows me to integrate into my current database, I might use it too. Workflows will be executed client-side and/or server-side. Some custom client-side steps will need to show forms for data-entry.

Is something like this possible to do?

cryo75 commented 4 years ago

I started with the diagramming tool and I already got a basic workflow with 2 simple steps.

Is it possible to have the DefinitionLoader serialize a workflow?

xuzeyu91 commented 4 years ago

I think you can convert XML to JSON and use DSL to load it