GCI Power Tools for Workflow
By Global Cents (GCI Live LLC)
GCI Power Tools for Workflow (PTW) is a collection of advanced tools for the Content Server Workflow module. PTW greatly extends both the functionality of CS workflow as well as complete control over the user interface.
GCI Power Tools for Workflow features complete control over what is displayed to the step performer at regular ‘User’ steps. The map designer can create customviews to display all the data on one page, multiple pages, or in multiple windows. This display is built from reusable components, so the map designer doesn’t have to completely redo everything when they want to make a change to some part of the display. Additional Power Tools for Workflow features include Item Handler Step extensions, initiate workflows from any item type, category data manipulations, ability to modify data contained in the workflow, and much more.
Details
GCI Power Tools for Workflow features include:
- Complete control over the content and user interface at each user step
- More control over creating versions using the Item Handler step
- A way to reference items created by the copy function of the Item Handler step for use in other Item Handler steps
- A new tab for the Item Handler that allows the workflow to call the standard functions on any item in Content Server; i.e. – delete, reserve, un-reserve, and rename
- The ability to initiate workflows from any item type and specify what should be done with the item. Copy it to the attachments folder, or keep a reference to it, in conjunction with fetching category data from the item and storing it in workflow data fields
- Modify data contained in the workflow such as attribute values, form field values, and comment strings Push data out under category, operations, apply to sub-items
- Support for accessing and manipulating workflow data via XSL customview files. This capability exists today for user steps but is now extended as a separate feature
- Support for updating the category values of all items in a container. This feature extends the functionality of the Item Handler step
- Support for setting the description of any node in The OpenText Content Server
- Support for using an Item Reference in a Form as an option for the move/copy action of an Item Handler step
