Here at Food Services of America we have already created our own DAL-Data Access Layer for access to ALL of our SQL Server data entities.
I noticed that the tutorials cover how to use smart objects within workflows which is very cool but in our case we simply won't use them 99% of the time. Additionally the tutorials always seem to use MOSS. We are a Sharepoint company, our corporate portal is Sharepoint with a MOSS version going through the branding and testing phases but we will not necessarily employ MOSS for workflow.
My questions are:
- Can we get a tutorial that covers:
- Creating a visual workflow layout in Visio
- Code generation from the Visio document of the workflow (not sure this is possible)
- The K2 Design Studio is almost exactly like K2.NET 2003 Studio but it crashes when I try and view something like the destination rule code.
- I wrote a code generator that generates a strongly typed class (C#) from a workflow solution file in K2.NET 2003. I did this by using the provided K2Studio namespace.
- Will this be possible for Black Pearl or does Black Pearl already expose things like the DataFields["name"] Process Instance Data as a strongly typed property?
From what I can see so far I am not able to provide a POC-Proof of COncept to my company for moving from K2.NET 2003 to Black Pearl. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
M. Scott McIntosh
Data/Workflow Architect
Systems Integration Team
Food Services of America
