Over the past three years, Comalatech's Workflow plugin has helped organizations large and small automate key processes on Confluence. At the June Atlassian Summit we announced the Workflows Exchange to provide organizations with ready-to-use workflows for different processes and a place they can discuss best practices and share ideas. Here's what you might have missed!

It's Easy!

Workflows became a lot easier to build since we released Ad hoc Workflows back in March. While pro users like to model a workflow and use our extensive markup language, our aim with the Ad hoc edition is to equip everyday casual users. So, we introduced simple tools with anyone can extract, save and reuse workflows built up through user-interactions. Our mission is to democratize Workflow in the same way Wikis democratize the generation and sharing of content.

More than we can Bundle

Our customers entrust us with a good deal of their context, unmet needs and actual workflows. From Document Approvals and Best Practices, to Standard Operating Procedures and Compliance: we learn what more is needed and progressively target support. When it comes to workflows we've always had the dilemma of what examples to include with the plugin. We've always bundled the few, most-widely applicable, well documented and solid examples along with the plugin. But most people love learning from examples, and tell us that they can't get enough of them.

Workflows for the People

Workflow examples have always been available as markup on the Comalatech Tutorials site. Great for technical users, but a little daunting for our new end users who seldom see workflow markup. What's the point of Workflows people can't use? Nope, Workflows for the people have to be accessible to people.

Users of the Adhoc Workflows Plugin from 3.0.3 have new menus that access an all-new Workflows Repository, modelled after the Plugins Repository. Administrators can determine who can import from the Comalatech Workflows Repository, and importing copies the workflows from the repository to be available to their users of Confluence.

See it in action!

Once you've installed the plugin just navigate to Space Admin > Import Workflows. Here you'll see the list of Workflows available for download, complete with controls that make installation a snap.

Be part of Our Future

In the forthcoming months we'll continue to develop this concept - we welcome your feedback! And, we're looking for Process Consultants, partners and end-customers to establish what you most want and what it would take to get you involved.

So, drop us a line!.