One of our team members, Jiri Slapak, implemented two minor usability improvements for the Visual Workflow Designer during "innovation time". We decided to integrate these changes into the recently released hotfix 7.0.11, so you can benefit from them. Read further to see what's new.

In this blog post I will show you how you can easily affect the logging of staging tasks for documents and objects using the LogChange handler(s) introduced in version 7.

In this last blog post from the series of blog posts focused on Advanced Workflow module, I will show you how you can customize the WorkflowManager class to provide the last missing piece in the process of creating a custom Parallel Approval action.

In my previous blog post about the new Advanced Workflow module, I gave you a quick overview on how to register a custom workflow action. Today, as promised, I will guide you step by step through the complete process of implementing and registering the custom action. As you will see, it's pretty simple and straightforward.

Building the content of a website with several editors usually comes with the need to approve this content before publishing, to provide reliable and consistent information to site visitors. This is one of the many scenarios where the Workflow module can be applied. The Advanced Workflow module, with features like branching based on macro conditions, user choices, automated actions and timed actions, brings more power in defining document approval processes to cover even advanced scenarios.

In addition to the new Advanced Workflow module, which will allow users to create advanced workflow processes including branches based on macro conditions, automated actions and timed actions, version 7 comes with several minor improvements to the current basic workflow.