Together Workflow Editor4.8-1

Together Workflow Editor is a professional and open source graphical editor developed to help you create, edit, manage and review WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition) XPDL (XML Process Definition Language) process definition files.

User interface

The layout may look and feel a bit overwhelming at a first glance but this only because the utility packs a lot features. There’s support for a comprehensive help manual in case you get lost configuring the dedicated parameters.The program provides quick access to a graph overview, external package relations, transient package pool components, as well as XPDL and LDAP components.You can view the whole graph of the selected process or activity set, graphical tree overview of the current package and all of its referenced external packages, and XPDL text view of the selected elements.Furthermore, you can check out the hierarchical view of the XPDL model and all the problems currently present in the XPDL model, connect to a workflow engine which supports WfMC interface defined by WfMC, and manage XPDL files on the engine, as well as connect to the LDAP based system, search for users and groups, and import them into XPDL as Participants.

XPDL file manipulation options

Together Workflow Editor gives you the possibility to create a new empty XPDL package or open an existing one, undo or redo your actions, remove the current selected element from the model and copy it to the clipboard, as well as paste or delete elements.What’s more, you can make use of a search function in order to find XPDL elements based on certain criteria or look for all elements in the XPDL model that refer to the currently selected element.

Checking features and other handy options

You may run a check on XPDL model based on the WfMC specifications and view a list with problems, turn on or off a design time XPDL validation, insert a new workflow process definition into the XPDL package, and edit XPDL package properties.What’s more, you can import an external package, remove an external package reference, open the document attached to the package, as well as manage type declarations, participants, applications and variables.

Process and external packages

Together Workflow Editor lets you edit the properties of the selected process, manage participants of the selected process, and check out a list with activities and transitions contained in a process.Additionally, you may identify all participants, processes, applications and type of declarations embedded in the external packages.

Bottom line

All in all, Together Workflow Editor comes with power features for helping you read WfMC XPDL files from the system or Wf-XML server, check out a graphical representation of process definitions, as well as write WfMC XPDL process definition XML files. The advanced set of options makes this tool suitable for professional users.