Workflow Scenario

[tonypartridge]

Getting to grips with Workflows and so far it's pretty smooth. But I am trying to workout the best way to approach a scenario I have, we will be having people starting processes, which for now I am hard coding, eventually they will be dynamic user created flows. But I need something now.

So the process starts after someone submits a form, based on the values selected will determine which activities are triggered. But how should we implement a view for the initiators to see the state of their running workflows, for example, waiting for approval or waiting for activity X. Since ->running() returns a generic status.

[rmcdaniel]

https://laravel-workflow.com/docs/features/queries

Queries are meant for this. They enable you to pull information out of the workflow.

use Workflow\QueryMethod;
use Workflow\Workflow;

class MyWorkflow extends Workflow
{
    private int $step = 1;

    #[QueryMethod]
    public function getCurrentStep(): int
    {
        return $this->step;
    }
}

Then outside of your workflow you can get the current step like this.

use Workflow\WorkflowStub;

$workflow = WorkflowStub::load($workflowId);

$step = $workflow->getCurrentStep();

[tonypartridge]

Ok that's super powerful, I'll have a play today with that. Thank you very much!

[ahmedsadeki]

I use it but it return null for me