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Integrated Workflow Overview

The module works on documents in CHECKED_IN state (cyan color), ready for being approved.

It is also possible to directly submit a Document to the Workflow from the Browser interface, even if the Document is in a CHECKED-OUT (red color) state.
The PDM will execute a Checkin before submitting the Document to the Workflow.

Please note that it is already possible to Checkin and Submit to Workflow from the CAD Command Bar, by keeping pressed the CTRL key while pushing the Checkin button in the Command Bar

The module needs to understand that the revision value is eligible for being approved (like a major revision), and to get this information the module calls the script OnCheckIfMajorRev.lst.

The Workflow module loads a set of Workflow States and Workflow Processes from a Workflow Definition File named DBWorkFlowDef.TXT.

The logic is that a set of documents, belonging to the same ECO (Engineering Change Order), will be submitted to the Workflow Module, and every document will be routed into the proper process depending on the values of some database fields declared in the Workflow Definition File.

When all the documents will reach the final state (Approval), the ECO will be approved and the documents will be ready, in DBWorks, for the phisical file approval, to be executed from a SolidWorks workstation.
All the intermediary workflow states, instead, can be processed from simple DBWorks Standalone workstations.