Enhancement: Workflow Extras(?) Addon: Make workflow source channel clickable

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:38:35 -0500

madpxdevs@schola.madpx.org

Matt Dent wrote the following post Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:38:34 -0500

Enhancement: Workflow Extras(?) Addon: Make workflow source channel clickable

Make the channel designation of a workflow item in the "Basic Task List" view to be clickable and when clicked, runs a search that returns only items from that workflow (or links the user to that channel's workflow page - with the appropriate ZID attached to the URL)

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 07:47:23 -0500

Matt Dent

matt@schola.madpx.org

Actually, this is a little more difficult than originally thought because of the nomadic reality that a channel can reside on multiple hubs and it isn't necessarily true that any given hub will have the workflow addon installed (this alone could potentially create problems which I have not yet seen reported).

In any event, the best solution for this request may be to include workflow endpoint information in the channel notifications using the "zotinfo" and "import_xchan" hooks and saving workflow endpoints/hublocs in the xconfig of the channel.

This may in the longer term have some additional helpful effects. But what it will prevent is the need to make assumptions about the URL and mangling it in a hacky way.

Due to the complexity discovered, the skill level has been changed to DIFFICULT. This may not be something we wish to tackle immediately.