In other words, how can you send another message to a running instance of a workflow? The answer is correlation. WF 4 introduces a framework for correlation. A correlation is actually one of two things: A way of grouping messages together. A classic example of this is s...
When you edit the ServiceOperationInfo property, you are presented with a dialog that allows you to choose the operation, and this is also where you must decide if you are going to use an existing service contract or define a new one. The dialog is shown in Figure 1 and has two buttons...
The contract can be declared in one of two ways: using WCF service contract attributes or directly within the workflow. The latter is often referred to as "workflow first" design, in contrast to "contract first" design. When defining the contract directly in the workflow, the contract informat...
A workflow is a process or a lifecycle that your objects go through. Each step or stage in the process is called aplace. You also definetransitions, which describe the action needed to get from one place to another. A set of places and transitions creates adefinition. A workflow needs a...
Have team members report their weekly workload to help you understand how responsibilities are being distributed. This data can help you identify imbalances, such as one or two members with too much work on their plates. You can then shuffle assignments to make the workflow more efficient. ...
Each workflow process is defined by one or more of the following components. These components are discussed at greater length below. Activity–Represents a single, logical step in the process. Action–Defines how an activity is accomplished. An action can be a simple expression evaluation or a ...
Activities: Select one or two good representative task threads for one of your user work roles, for example, the customer. ■ Write a couple of detailed usage scenarios, referring to user roles, tasks, actions, objects, and work context. ■ Work quickly; you can clean it up as you go....
We have already discussed it a little when working on the initial script. The difference between native npm update and npm-check is that the former one respects semver while the later one goes all the way to the latest deps version. Gene...
Or, perhaps, you run a restaurant and feel like you’re living in constant chaos. Your goal? To make the process of taking, filling, and delivering a customer’s order so smooth that it becomes automatic and error-free. It’s okay if you have more than one end goal. We think that’...
Understanding Workflow The concept of workflow was important to the study of the rational organization of work processes. These processes optimize manufacturing or informational processes to avoid bottlenecks—known as triage. After WW2, the quality movement developed several workflow improvement theories, w...