I am trying to create a workflow for document approval process using WF. I need to show this workflow process in a page as how many stages completed,who was involved in the workflow etc. Can you guys please help me out how to achieve. Please share me if you have any source links.
You can use the WorkflowDesigner to create an image of a workflow and then display that on a web page. But as the WorkflowDesigner is a WPF control doing so in an ASP.NET app is pretty hard.
The idea of trying to produce a bitmap of the WPF is not a bad one. But in general I think what you may be looking at is to create a TrackingParticipant that listens to your workflow events and publishes information somewhere that can later be used to render a web page that suits your needs. So from the TrackingParticipant you could save off each Activity that completes, and then uses some JS based graph library to render this. Not easy, but not impossible either. If your visual needs are not that complicated, this could look more like a report than a flowchart I suppose.
There is a sample of using the TrackingParticipant in the WWF4 samples, VisualWorkflowTracking.
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I'm currently working on a project which aims to deliver a "low-code" solution for integrating workflows. I'm very impressed by Elsa since it already comes with a lot of functionality that I was looking for.
Since the projcet goes into the direction of "low-code" the center of user Interaction will be the Dashboard/Designer.
I was wondering if it's possible to modify the components the designer uses? E.g. I'd like to integrate a Component that let's the user define the Workflow-Name and other input parameters when the "Create Workflow"-Button is clicked or remove existing activites or edit the toolbox in general.
I know that the components that are used by default are defined here
<body>
<elsa-studio-root server-url="#serverUrl" monaco-lib-path="_content/Elsa.Designer.Components.Web/monaco-editor/min">
<elsa-studio-dashboard/>
</elsa-studio-root>
</body>
But I don't know where to find the monaco-lib-path neither if I'm able to edit what I'll find there. I'm very new to ASP.NET and web development in genereal, so I'll be very thankful if somebody can help me.
Currently, there are not that many features to facilitate UI customization, there are some capabilities for customizing activities like their icons as described here.
In Elsa Roadmap V3.0
there's an item to make the dashboard modular & themeable. But until its implementation, you have the option to fork the designer which is developed using stenciljs, and make your desired changes, or even create your UI from scratch and just consume the Elsa API.
I've started using FlaUI for Automating my thick client .net application. The application is Windows Form based. The start was good and Login Form was identified and I could Login, but after that came the dead end and I found that almost everything in the application is developed as Pane control type.
So, there is grid, table etc. but they all just appear as Pane type when I see the object hierarchy using Inspect.exe or FLAUInspect tools. And nothing really appears in thier property, so it seems that nothing could be read. But before giving up I just wanted to check with experienced audience on this forum if there is really any way to get the data from Pane objects.
Please suggest if there is any way, even that means using other libraries like UIAutomation, TestStack.White, etc.
UPDATE: I now understand little more about this. So, the objects that are there in the pane are developed in syncfusion and devexpress. Is it possible to identify objects developed in syncfusion and devexpress using FlaUI or UIAutomation or TestStack.White, etc ?
I don't know if you have already tried the following steps. Have you add automationId's to your objects in xaml code with:
AutomationProperties.AutomationId="AnyID"
In the testcode, first initialize the main window of the application.
MainWindow = fApplication.GetMainWindow(fAutomation, null)?.AsWindow()
After that you can find your objects by the automationId's, like:
MainWindow .FindFirstDescendant(cf => cf.ByAutomationId(AnyID))
I did it this way, and don't have to know the hierarchy of my application. Maybe this will work?
Most UI Frameworks nowadays fully support UI Automation. So first make sure that you have a recent version of your framework (syncfusion, devexpress). In addition, some frameworks provide settings to enable UI Automation. Like for devexpress, you need to set
ClearAutomationEventsHelper.IsEnabled = false;
at the start of your application to test so it exposes way more things (like tabs) to FlaUI.
I want to run my WPF application on asp.net web application. Actually I have a WPF page.xaml which contain the image viewer, which actually open image and edit it as required.
Now I want to embed that in my Asp.net Web application. I have a asp.net web application user control on which I want that WPF stuff. I research on it on the internet, I find a way that we first publish the WPF application on the IIS server and then past the URL in asp.net web application page iframe. as I follow this below link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970060.aspx#deploying_a_xbap
now I not want to follow this approach. I want an alternate way of this. Is there any way to handle this scenario. If yes then how can we achieve this?
Yes there's a better way: you can use Silverlight (basically it's a C# equivalent to Flash).
Even if Silverlight is quite the same as WPF, there is some differences due to the fact that silverlight is made for web. So you'll have to make some changes to your application.
About integrating it in your page, it seems quite simple:
You can use an object html element (as you would do with Flash)
Here are some links about that:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/cc838145(v=vs.95).aspx
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/raj1979/host-silverlight-in-Asp-Net/
2 years later, a possible answer appears! Maybe someone else will see this and get some use out of it.
I have been hearing rumors that it is possible to run your WPF application in a browser, it's called an XBAP?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970060%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
I am about to give this a try myself, I'll update this answer with any limitations I find.
I'm building a basic web application in ASP.NET 4.0 with C# in Visual Studio 2010 Pro. I'm still very new to C#, and am used to Delphi coding. My website already has registration/login, and although I use some asp.net controls, a majority of my pages are dynamically loaded from my SQL database and I manually compile the HTML code from C# and insert it into the document.
Now what I would like to do is implement a poll - or a vote box - an 'object' which can be re-used in different pages. My website's master page already has a permanent left panel which has things which show on every page. One of these will be a small box with a vote of a few questions.
All I need to know is how do I begin to build an independent plugin control for a web page like this? I don't necessarily mean a separate DLL or anything, my existing one can handle everything. But I'd like to re-use the same little voting box in different pages too. So I'm assuming this will be considered a separate page, in a way, which is probably about 120 pixels wide by 80 high. Each vote will be limited to either login account or ip address (which I already have access to). So this solution must interact with the existing asp.net application.
So how do I begin the 'backbone' of such a plugin which can be re-used in multiple pages? I do not plan on distributing this plugin, and I don't even know if this is the correct term for what I need. Just a 'box' which can be 're-used' on multiple pages - which must interact with the asp.net app.
To better explain what I mean, imagine how Facebook has the plugin where you can embed some general info about likes and such. I'd like to make my own box like this - and even be able to embed it in other websites.
It sounds like you just need to make the poll into a user control. The documentation should get you started with them. A control can access everything an ASP.NET page can when it comes to the login information. It won't handle embedding into other pages though – embeddable active content that authenticates against your site is a nontrivial problem.
As I said in the comment, if most of your HTML is creates as a blob that's opaque to ASP.NET, it will probably be nontrivial to insert a user control into the middle of it.
Im a c# developer and I believe that what I want to achieve is going to move out of the realms of some drop in .NET component so I am looking for advise on what I use externally which .NET can inter op with.
My requirements are to have an embedded web browser control in a WPF/Winforms applciation BUT I will also need to keep track of the following:
User interaction i.e. what pages they visit, forms submitted where they click etc.
DOM manipulation and traversing
I am guessing here but it seems that I might need to start looking at open source html/web browsers out there like WebKit etc. Is this the right track or is there anything currently available in the form of a control/COM object that I can use directly.
Cheers, Chris.
You should be able to accomplish point 1 using the webbrowser control in Visual Studio, but I dont think DOM manipulation is available, i do know you can traverse all the tags.
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