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Holy Grail of Plone Workflow

We are in the process of implementing Plone CMS as a repository for ISO9001 documents.

ISO requires a certain amount of logging, as anyone familiar with the standard probably knows :-)

For flexibility, we would like to include in a specific order:

  • New types of content: you must include various documents that may arise in the enterprise
  • Versions: to show that our documents are always updated and show what changes were made to a previous version of the same document.
  • Support for a working copy: so that the “published” document is online while it is being edited.
  • More complex workflow: to accommodate ISO review processes
  • Different workflows for different documents: because the workflow depends on the type of document.

Therefore, the holy grail of workflow optimization should be (and please correct me if I am wrong):

  • Dexterity for Content Types
  • CMFEdition (built into Plone) for version control
  • Iteration to support working copy.
  • plone.app.workflowmanager for new workflows
  • .CMFPlacefulWorkflow products for different workflows according to different documents.

The problem is combining various works:

  • How can you manage versions with Dexterity?
  • How do you add working copies on top of this (while maintaining the necessary version control)?
  • And how do you get your brilliant new workflow (great btw UI for workflowmanager) to play well with versions and work copies.

I looked at the google area and already found these links:

We also checked:

which are all installed and configured ...

However, my new content type does not allow checkout / checkin (Iterate product), and none of these versions / changes are tracked in the historical view for the same content type.

Is their magic sequence, or am I missing something (or, more likely)? Because, if all these products worked out of the box, in my opinion, this is a comprehensive solution for the whole process of work ...

expansion 2012/04/17: As noted by thet, the stack ends as with

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You need to use plone.app.stagingbehavior (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.stagingbehavior), which associates Iterate / CMFEditions types with agility. Not sure about your versioning issues.

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You can also connect versioningbehavior

And stagingbehavior .

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