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kpaxton-gpworldwide - 4/21/2010 11:15:40 AM

BizForm and Workflow

I was wondering if there is any way to create a workflow for form entries through a BizForm?

I basically want the form entry to be saved and emailed to an editor who then views the entry and modifies it as necessary, then forwards it on to another user who eventually reviews and approves it.

I'm new to the whole kentico development process and I'm still in the trial mode to see if it will work as our intranet. So please be thorough in your explanation of how to do this if it's possible.

Thanks!


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 4/23/2010 2:23:16 AM RE:BizForm and Workflow Hi, In this case I do not see the reason why to use bizforms module? If you want to have this kind of workflow, you can use the User contributions module and setup Workflow for the location and document types used in the user contributions. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus

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kpaxton-gpworldwide - 4/23/2010 8:24:38 AM

RE:BizForm and Workflow

I don't believe the user contributions module will work for us. I think we might have a unique situation here but I would think that more companies do this and there has to be some way that it's done efficiently.

We store resumes for every employee that we have. We use those resumes for internal yearly reviews and depending on what department they are with sometimes we use them for contract proposals. So I was thinking that I should use a BizForm for the initial entry and drafting of the resume and run it through a workflow that copies that resume to an approved table after reviewing and editing is done to it. Once in the approved table a manager drafting a proposal can retrieve the resume, export it to a .doc file and modify it as needed for the specific proposal.

Since I'm new to this whole thing I'm not sure how I can get certain modules working together or even know the full extent that a module has to be able to handle something like this. Any guidance on how to possibly set this up would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.


Member	kpaxton-gpworldwide - 4/27/2010 9:45:43 AM RE:BizForm and Workflow does anyone have any ideas on how I may be able to implement this?

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john.murray-zespri - 5/5/2010 11:49:02 PM

RE:BizForm and Workflow

You really want to try and hook into a system that offers flexible workflow.

For example, if you have SharePoint then you could write a custom event handler for the Bizform events (CRUD) and hook this into the SharePoint List Web Service to update a list from where you can automatically kick-off all kinds of workflow.

If Kentico was your extranet and Sharepoint was your intranet then it would be a perfect way of passing customer data (in Kentico) into an internal process (in SharePoint).

This is kind of a reverse of the free Kentico SharePoint Connector.


Kentico Support	kentico_jurajo - 4/28/2010 1:47:54 AM RE:BizForm and Workflow Hi, Regrettably workflow on bizforms is not supported at this moment. Unless you will buy source code license and change the workflow logic. From your description it will be the best way to develop fully custom module where you can specify the proces and workflow according to your needs. Best regards, Juraj Ondrus