Lightweight Requirements Management workflow

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Robert Alexander Marshall
Last updated: Jan 24, 2024
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Lightweight Requirements Management workflow

requires v3.0.4+

com.comalatech.workflow.repository.categories.label: Document Management|Systems Development Life Cycle

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A simple lightweight workflow for managing Software Requirements

  • workflow is only applied to content in the space that has the label requirement

  • for each requirement page you can select the

    • priority

    • category

    • owner (as well as to define links to the actors (users))

  • to ensure consistency, the workflow has defined a template header.

The defined template header includes a table that retrieves the workflow parameters values as metadata for the content.

Lightweight Requirements Workflow Markup
{workflow:name=Lightweight Requirements Management workflow|label=requirement} {description} A simple lightweight workflow for managing Software Requirements. For each requirement page you can select the priority, category and owner, as well as to define links to the actors. {description} {pageheader} || State | {get-metadata:state>name} | || Priority | {get-metadata:Priority} | || Category | {get-metadata:Category} | || Owner | {get-metadata:Owner} | || Actor | {get-metadata:Actor} | {pageheader} {workflowparameter:Categories|description=List of categories} Category 1, Category 2, Category 3 {workflowparameter} {workflowparameter:Category|type=list|options=<at:var at:name="Categories" />|edit=true} Category 1 {workflowparameter} {workflowparameter:Priority|type=list|options=High, Medium, Low|edit=true} High {workflowparameter} {workflowparameter:Owner|type=user|edit=true} <at:var at:name="creator@ {workflowparameter} {workflowparameter:Actor|edit=true} [Home] {workflowparameter} {state:Not Started|submit=In Progress|taskable=true} {state} {state:In Progress|submit=Complete|taskable=true} {state} {state:Complete|approved=Approved|rejected=Rejected|taskable=true} {approval:Approval} {state} {state:Approved|taskable=true} {state} {state:Rejected|hidefrompath=true} {state} {trigger:labeladded|label=requirement|initial=true} {set-state:Not Started} {trigger} {workflow}

In later versions of the Comala Document Management app, referencing elements  using <at:var at:name="Categories" /> should be replaced with simply @Categories@

Lightweight Requirements Process