Workflow Configuration

Purpose

To create a new workflow configuration that ATS uses to move an Action through it's specific workflow.

Ats Workflow Configuration artifacts.

ATS uses four main artifacts to configure a workflow for use by a Team.

Work Flow Definition specifies the states, their transitions and the state that represents the beginning of the workflow.

Work Page Definition defines the a single state of the Work Flow Definition.

Work Widget Definition defines a single widget and its corresponding attribute that the value will be stored in. It also provides some layout capabilities for that widget.

Work Rule Definition defines certain rules that can be applied to Work Pages and Team Definitions.

How to do it

Workflows can be created using the ATS Workflow Configuration Editor (0.6.0 release). States and their transitions can be edited through this interface. Other modifications will need to be edited through Work Flow Definition attributes and relations.

Work Pages, Widgets and Rules are currently edited through the attributes and relations using the default Artifact Editor. See links above to set the proper values.

Configurations can also be created through the java. An example of this can be seen by looking at the org.eclipse.osee.ats.config.demo plugin. This plugin, and the DemoDatabaseConfig.java class, shows how to programatically generate work flows, pages, rules and widgets to configure ATS. This configuration will be generated during a database initialization.