CQ Workflow Tutorial: Export Workflow Models Quickly

Update (5/17/2013):

There is a bug in the script when there are more than 10 files. This part will fix it:

# Do not change any of these
INDEX=1
FILES=$TARGET_DIR/$PACKAGE_NAME-*.zip
for f in $FILES
do
    echo File Name: $f
    FILE=$f
    NTEMP=`echo ${FILE##*-}|cut -d . -f1`
    echo NTEMP: $NTEMP
    if [ "$NTEMP" -gt "$INDEX" ];
    then
         INDEX=$NTEMP
    fi
done;

So far I did not discuss how to manage the project even though if you look at the final project files I posted at the end of the Post you will see that it contains the Workflow Models as well.
In General I always keep the Workflow Models in my VCS (often my personal GIT as well as the Client’s VCS) just to make sure I have a track record of all the changes and can see how it evolves over time but also to have a way to easily undo a problematic current version. Because Workflow Models can only be edited inside the CQ Workflow Model Editor we need to find a way to export them quickly, easily and fast otherwise we might loose changes. That said I never to export the workflows directly into the VCS but rather export them into a temporary folder and then use a DIFF tool like Delta Walker for the Mac to move them over even if I just copy them without ever merging. Read more

CQ Workflow Tutorial: Extending CQ Workflows with Workflow Porcess

There are a few useful Workflow Steps available that enables you create nice Workflow Models. That said many features are not provided or are implemented badly. This is a list of features that are missing out of the box:

• Logging of the Payload, Meta Data etc
• Replication using a Particular Replication Agent
• Sending Email Notifications using a Particular Template
• Conditional Jumps

• etc

When building a CQ Workflow Models you are adding / configuring Steps which you select on the Sidekick:

Read more

CQ Workflow Tutorial

Last weekend I started to write down some articles about CQ’s Workflows. Initially I thought this will be composed of a few articles and that’s it. But then I remembered what I learned about Workflows since last year and even today I am still learning how CQ Workflow works and how to tweak them to make them do what I want / need them to do.

As of now I am thinking that I need to move these articles into a series of pages so that it will remain intact and in order of the Tutorial. This way it will be easier for readers to follow.

So what do I plan to add to the tutorial? This is a short list of what I plan to do in the future but I am pretty sure there will be more:

• Workflow Process and how to add custom functionality
• Workflow Step Dialogs to make Workflow Processes easier to use
• Dialog Participant Step Revision 3: how to use the selected data
• Making Workflows more Transparent with Logging
• (Conditional) Jumps inside a Workflow
• Workflow Vows and how to Handle Them
• Workflow Process / OSGi Service Configuration with Rumodes

• Where did my Comments Go?

There is way more but I am not sure how many readers will actually use them so we will see.

Cheers – Andy