Super Workflow Tutorial

Welcome to Super Workflow!

Super Workflow is an assembler for arrange existing tasks in specified order and conditions. The existing tasks are tasks of Super Scheduler or Super Watchdog.

This tutorial assumes that you have taken Super Scheduler tutorial and set two tasks, named one and two.

1. Open the Workflow Panel.

2. The toolbox is under the menu at the top of the panel. The left section of the toolbox is for drawing tools.

3. Let's click the Action tool. The cursor becomes , indicating that the drawing process has begun: an Action is picked. Now move your mouse to the big drawing area and click on the place you want the Action to be. A rectangle cell (the Action) appears. The cursor changed back to the default cursor (an arrow), indicating the drawing process completed.

4. Repeat the steps and draw another cell:

5. Now we have two Actions. That is good enough for our tutorial. We need arrange the two Actions in specified order. So we need draw a Transition between them.

Click on the Transition tool. The cursor becomes , indicating that the drawing process has begun: a Transition is picked. Now move your mouse to the first cell and click your mouse and drag your mouse to the second cell.

An arrowed line (the Transition) appears connecting the two cells. The cursor changed back to the default cursor (an arrow), indicating the drawing process completed.

6. The "picture" is done for our tutorial. But the Actions are only empty cells. We need to specify the actions for them.

Right click your mouse on the first cell. A popup menu appears.

7. Click on the Properties menu item. The Action Properties Panel appears.

8. We need to choose a task as the Action of this cell. Click on the Select button. The Task Table Panel appears. The tasks listed here is existing tasks. Let's highlight one and click the Ok button to choose one.

9. Now we have back to the Action Properties Panel. The Task name is filled with our selected one. And ID is automatically filed the same name as Task name as default. ID can be changed if you like.

10. Let's click on the Ok button and close this panel. Now we have back to the Workflow Panel. The selected name one appears on the cell.

11. Repeat the previous step to select two as the underlying Action for the second cell.

11. Good. We have just assembled our first workflow. We have defined Actions and the order and relationship among Actions. Now we need to store or save it. There are two different ways to store/save:

• from the Ok button: the workflow will be stored in the task database and ready to be scheduled. Eventually, every workflow will be stored in the task database from this button.
• from the Save and Save As menu items of the File menu: the workflow will be saved as a file for future editing.

Depending from where you come to the Workflow Panel, the Ok button may or may not appear. If the Ok button is not show up, Save or Save As is the only way.

12. This is our short tutorial. Before we finish, let's see the following example. Thanks for your interest.