In talking with customers about the workflow creation process, one customer got quite excited about how quick and easy it is to create a workflow. Suddenly, the customer asked, "If I can create a workflow this fast, I want to create a lot of workflows. Can I display the workflow using some existing GUI without having to design a custom GUI?".

Custom GUI's take time to create. The objective of Jetfire is to simplify the workflow creation/modification process so that Power Users can build workflows and upgrade them. But what good is a simple workflow creation process if there is no GUI to use it?

This is a common problem with workflow systems. I have not seen a workflow system that provides a user GUI that adapts to new workflows. However, with the experience from Tracker, we decided that a general GUI is best addressed by a data-driven system.

Using Web Parts, we created a set of Web Parts that provide a general purpose workflow display for Jetfire. (see http://Jetfire.ca/pages/JetfireWebParts.aspx for more informaiton.)

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