GCI Power Tools for Workflow Version 2.2

GCI Power Tools for Workflow (PTW) is a collection of advanced tools for enhancing the capabilities of the OpenText Content Server Workflow module. GCI Power Tools for Workflow feature complete control by the workflow map designer over what is displayed to the step performer at regular ‘User’ steps. For example, for a workflow with three forms, a number of attributes, some comments and attachments, GCI Power Tools for Workflow allow the map painter to specify how this data should be displayed. The map designer can create a custom display form, called "CustomViews", to display all the data on one page, multiple pages, or in multiple windows. This display is built from reusable components, so the map designer doesn’t have to completely redo everything when they want to make a change to some part of the display. All of the ‘Send On’, ‘Review’, and ‘Delegate’ functionality comes from the same page as all the workflow data. An additional benefit is that, when there is a large amount of data, the display of the data is much faster. PTW also does incremental updates of the data so that by the time the user is finished filling out the form, most of the data will already have been saved.

Additional Power Tools for Workflow features include:

• More control over creating versions using the Item Handler step
• A way to reference items created by the copy function of the Item Handler step for use in other Item Handler steps
• A new tab for the Item Handler that allows the workflow to call the standard functions on any item in Livelink; i.e. – delete, reserve, un-reserve, and rename
• The ability to initiate workflows from any item type and specify what should be done with the item. Copy it to the attachments folder, or keep a reference to it, in conjunction with fetching category data from the item and storing it in workflow data fields
• GCI Power Tools for Workflow Extensions v.1.0.0:
  • Modify data contained in the workflow such as attribute values, form field values, and comment strings
  • Push data out under category>operations> apply to sub-items
  • Set the description of a Livelink node

March 2, 2010: we are pleased to announce the release of GCI Power Tools for Workflow 2.2.0, GCI Power Tools Agent 1.2.0, and GCI Utils 1.3.0. The release of these modules includes a rollup of 15 patches that address various bugs, performance issues, and compatibility resolutions. There is also a rollup of the features that were previously only available in a separate module. These features are:

• Support for accessing and manipulating workflow data via XSL customview files. This capability exists today for user steps but is now extended as a separate feature
• Support for updating the category values of all items in a container. This feature extends the functionality of the Item Handler step
• Support for setting the description of any node in The Open Text Content Server
• Support for using an Item Reference in a Form as an option for the move/copy action of an Item Handler step

For more information please view the four-part online demo:

(part one)

(part two)

(part three)

(part four)

For more information please download our Power Tools for Livelink Workflow document and/or contact us.

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