Workflow Manager for Eclipse

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Please enter here remarks, questions or feedback regarding the Marketplace listing Workflow Manager for Eclipse https://marketplace.collibra.com/listings/workflow-manager-for-eclipse/

luigicardeles · Answer

Hi, do you have any tips for setting up the connection using SSO? In Workflow Connections, it is mandatory to fill in username and password. Thanks for any help;

Former User · Answer

Paulo, since work is underway on this, my strong recommendation would be a no-code setup. Not every data governance team has enough technical resources for tailoring / developing workflows. That is also true for most of the business organizations who we would like to take a larger hand in defining and deploying their own workflows. Think outside the current box, and make it simpler for data citizens.

Former User · Answer

Paulo, since work is underway on this, my strong recommendation would be a no-code setup. Not every data governance team has enough technical resources for tailoring / developing workflows. That is also true for most of the business organizations who we would like to take a larger hand in defining and deploying their own workflows. Think outside the current box, and make it simpler for data citizens.

Paulo Taylor · Answer

Hi @arthur.burkhardt , When would you be free for a quick call somewhere this week?

arthurburkhardt · Answer

It’s very cool to have packaged this functionality as an eclipse plugin, but I wanted more functionalities and I ended up writing a python script that I call through the eclipse external tools, which basically provide the same level of integration, but more advanced upload capabilities.

I store the .bpmn and .groovy files separately: no copy paste, the script merges the .groovy files automatically
I have a block of code that is present in the editor, but removed when deployed: I instantiate the beans and APIs (assetApi, etc) so that I can get the autocomplete while coding
I have groovy support functions that I can reuse without copy/pasting. There’s a simple syntax to import reusable functions such as “upsertAttributes”.
The script automatically archives all versions of deployed workflows so that I can come back to any deployed version at any time.
When testing bits of code, I use a test workflow with a single script task. The script can automatically trigger it, read from the console and return the result back into the eclipse console. This way I can quickly iterate, execute the code, fix and rerun.

This makes it a joy to work with workflow, in addition to my tips to remove stack traces from the console logs, which facilitate debugging.

Happy to have a call if you’re interested! It would be awesome to see those functionalities into the workflow manager!

arthurburkhardt · Answer

It’s very cool to have packaged this functionality as an eclipse plugin, but I wanted more functionalities and I ended up writing a python script that I call through the eclipse external tools, which basically provide the same level of integration, but more advanced upload capabilities.

I store the .bpmn and .groovy files separately: no copy paste, the script merges the .groovy files automatically
I have a block of code that is present in the editor, but removed when deployed: I instantiate the beans and APIs (assetApi, etc) so that I can get the autocomplete while coding
I have groovy support functions that I can reuse without copy/pasting. There’s a simple syntax to import reusable functions such as “upsertAttributes”.
The script automatically archives all versions of deployed workflows so that I can come back to any deployed version at any time.
When testing bits of code, I use a test workflow with a single script task. The script can automatically trigger it, read from the console and return the result back into the eclipse console. This way I can quickly iterate, execute the code, fix and rerun.

This makes it a joy to work with workflow, in addition to my tips to remove stack traces from the console logs, which facilitate debugging.

Happy to have a call if you’re interested! It would be awesome to see those functionalities into the workflow manager!

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