Manual

[freeyland]

Dear,
Would you have some kind of documentation or example how to youse your code.

Thanx,
Frederick

[iteman]

I wrote a quick start guide to manage business processes with Workflower on Symfony application.

http://phpmentors.jp/post/135905985688/practical-symfony-28-bpm-with-workflower

It's written in Japanese, but it includes code that would help you.

[bretrzaun]

I agree - some documentation (in english) would make this very interesting project understandable by a wider audience.
Workflow components are rare in the PHP world, which makes this one even more interesting.

[freeyland]

Very difficult to read the examples with Japanese text. How hard would it be for you to translate?

[iteman]

A quick start guide in English will be available sometime soon.
It's not very difficult for me, but I'm quite busy and there is quality problem 😅

[cymapgt]

Hi, Once populating the workflow with the participants is it up to the implementer to control the execution e.g. a $workflow->execute() method?

[iteman]

@cymapgt In Workflower, a Role is mapped to a Swimlane of the workflow at source time to define the owner of the workflow elements on the lane, while a Participant is mapped to WorkItems at runtime to define the person (or not person) who will execute the Activity. And a Workflow object will check whether or not the given participant (usually the current user) has the role of the current activity on allocateWorkItem(), startWorkItem(), and completeWorkItem().

[cymapgt]

Thanks. I have managed to design a bpmn document and implement it successfully including with an exclusive gateway as advised. I guess the main areas to ensure that the Participant has required role, then if there is any process data to set it in the WorkItem and then fire the process.

[iteman]

@cymapgt Congratulations!

If you use PHPMentorsWorkflowerBundle, you can inject a WorkItemContext object by using phpmentors_workflower.work_item_context service to use a WorkItemContext object with the SecurityParticipant object.

[iteman]

The Quick Start Guide https://github.com/phpmentors-jp/workflower/blob/master/docs/GUIDE.md has just been added! 😄