{"id":74,"date":"2008-04-17T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T08:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-04-17T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T08:51:15","slug":"time-for-a-state-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/time-for-a-state-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a state machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The library summary webpart that I&#8217;ve been working on over the last week is now at a point where I can put it in front of the UAT board and show them the different flavours. Flexibility was the key with this part as I wanted to avoid having to keep re-writing webparts for each different team.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used personalisation menus quite heavily with this one and it&#8217;s working quite nicely, even if some of the logic within the code has to be quite convoluted.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the UAT meeting isn&#8217;t until this afternoon, so yesterday I decided to take a look at a state machine workflow.<\/p>\n<p>I found a fairly good walkthrough on the net that seems to cover the ground quite nicely, available here:- <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pointbridge.com\/Blogs\/morse_matt\/Pages\/Post.aspx?_ID=20\">Matt Morse &#8211; State Machine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m adapting the basic walkthrough to meet my requirements, Hopefully I&#8217;ve built up enough knowledge on the workflows to get this working without doing a sandbox first, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library summary webpart that I&#8217;ve been working on over the last week is now at a point where I can put it in front of the UAT board and show them the different flavours. 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