Web View with selected workflows only?

schistad · ‎04-01-2014

I'm currently investigating how to, with as little effort as possible, provide a web portal to trigger workflows.

Currently I'm trying to find a way around the fact that the root-level permissions, which are required to log in to the weboperator, are auto-inherited across the entire hierarchy, meaning that anyone who can log in to the portal will see *every* workflow in the entire repository.

Is there any way to hide this? Or choose which workflows can be viewed inside the web operator?

Yes, removing the permission on all child folders and adding it back on just the workflows I want to publish would probably achieve the desired result, but that's just nasty.

iiliev · ‎04-02-2014

AFAIK, there is no such way, so you have to remove permission on child folders.

Burke- · ‎04-02-2014

As Ilian notes, there is no way to choose which workflows are displayed in the Weboperator. To achieve what you are looking for, you'll be better off with your own portal and simply using the REST API - for example WaveMaker In older versions of vCO, the Webviews were an option. While they still work, if you can figure out how to use them, they ARE being deprecated as noted in version 5.5.1's release notes.

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schistad · ‎04-02-2014

Okay, I've been able to hack together a quick webview based on the examples in the vCO documentation.

One minor niggle is that I've found that when submitting a form input (eg approval) from the Web Operator, the portal attempts to redirect the user to "thankyou.html", which does not exist. This then triggers an exception in the Web Operator, which is never pretty.

Any idea where this might come from, and if I can fix it?

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Web View with selected workflows only?