joe-ferraro.com » development http://joe-ferraro.com adless since 2008 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:22:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 visualizing workflow http://joe-ferraro.com/2008/05/visual-workflow/ http://joe-ferraro.com/2008/05/visual-workflow/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 21:39:31 +0000 joe http://joe-ferraro.com/?p=34 When clients illustrate complex business processes with a seemingly endless cast of layers, players, deadlines, and notifications I cringe, not because of Salesforce.com’s inability to handle these types of processes (Salesforce.com’s workflow capabilities are exceptional), but being a visual person I’m well-aware of Salesforce.com’s inability to provide visual representation of workflow.  As a solution, I developed a rather simple doodad (borrowing some of the concepts of Salesforce.com’s approval processes model) to present active workflow processes to the user in a (somewhat) manageable fashion. I characterize my solution as a hybrid between traditional workflow and approvals processes.

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Workflow detail embedded in the Opportunity detail pageVisual Workflow
Modal action windowVisual Workflow
Process queue Iframe embedded on the user’s front pageProcess queue

 

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