I came across this ubercart post. I was wondering if you could clarify what is the plan for D6

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fago
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Status: Active » Fixed

thanks for the note, I've done so.

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amitaibu
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Title: What is the future of WF_ng for D6? » WF_ng wishlist for D6

Thanks, I saw your comment about wishlists:

1. Add/ Edit/Delete Fields Content - allow wf_ng to change values of nodes (nodeapi and CCK)
2. Pre-populate content - similar to 1. This will allow discarding of fieldthief module for example.
3. Load arguments from views. This will allow users to set same action on several entities. I imagine an action "Load arguments from Views' and all actions coming after it are looped.
4. You might be doing it already with the creation of Rules - separate the condition to a new module, and allow other modules to use the condition. So a certain block for example will how only if WF Condition returns true - (I think this will help alot of non-developers with blocks...)
5. Cases - I haven't got a clear idea about it, but here's the user case: I need to check 2 condition one of them is loading a user, and act differently if All True, All False, True && False. For this I need to create 3 different configurations, and each time load the user. However, adding such a feature might be overcomplicating. Anyway, just an idea :)

6. Keep on your great work :D

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fago
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Status: Fixed » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

please don't overtake other issues, but ok, so let it be this time. let's make this the wishlist thread!

ad 1: Would be awesome, but I don't think I have time to implement this. Would be a nice contribution for sure!
ad 2: ditto
ad 3: ditto. Probably we need a mapping from views base tables to entities, but that would be somethinkg that would be worth to look into it for sure.
ad 4: hm, no something isn't planned. But it could be done already, be adding an event for that. Or as alternative wait for the rule sets feature in d6, and let users choose a suiteable rule set to determine something - which would be probably more user friendly.
ad 5: That's already possible, as rule configuration is ordered. Load the user in rule 1, set it to weight -10. Then use it in further rules with higher weights.

my personal wishes (don't know if I have the time for):
* support for sets of entites
* to work with them - support for loops
* based on that, views support (-> your point 3)
* basic variable support for strings -> one step further to be a "high level programming solution"
* more devs contributing events, conditions, actions and to w-ng itself..

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fago
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to make this more visible, I've posted a call for whishes on my blog: http://more.zites.net/workflow-ng/wishes_for_the_rules_engine

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zilla commented

very cool. just wondering how d6 port and development is coming. are you trying to incorporate all of the wishlist into a first release, or do you plan to port and stabilize and then enhance? seems like many modules list workflow-ng as a dependency or 'strongly suggested' (e.g. buddylist, etc)

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chipway commented

Hi,

Any news about D6 port ?

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wayland76 commented

I believe the idea is that he's going to finish writing the "rules" module first, as the D6 port of workflow_ng will depend on this.

http://drupal.org/project/rules

There's stuff in rules' CVS, but unfortunately, there't not even a dev version there -- I've jsut asked for a dev version.

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seakayjay commented

1. Add/ Edit/Delete Fields Content - allow wf_ng to change values of nodes (nodeapi and CCK)

This is my wish list also. It would be awesome if we have that feature.