New-Open-Save workflows

New Workflow

When landing in ewoksweb you can start building your workflow immediately. The editor has in the middle of the top navigation bar the title Untitled workflow (unsaved) that will be replaced by the name of the workflow once the workflow is first saved. By clicking the New button with the tooltip start a new workflow on the upper bar a dialog appears requesting the new workflow name. By inserting a unique name and pressing SAVE WORKFLOW the dialog disappears and the canvas is available with the name entered appearing in the upper bar left side. If the given name is already used a message warns the user for providing another name.

Open a Workflow

The user can open a graph in the canvas from:

• the server by searching using the dropdown in the upper bar and pressing the Open from server.

  The workflows management tab can also be used to open-delete a workflow. It is located in the upper drawer that open when pressing the second button from the right in the upper bar. In the workflow management bar a workflow can be selected exploiting the categories dropdown for easier search. Its details are being fetched and presented to the user after selection. Using the 2 buttons under the search boxes the user can open a workflow on the canvas or delete it from the server.

• the local storage by pressing the button with the directory icon on the upper bar.

Save a Workflow

When the user makes all th changes to a new or an existing workflow he can use the disk-button on the top right to save any changes in the workflow. All workflows are being saved in the backend ewoksserver within the filesystem in their ewoks representation json format. The option to Download the workflow in their local drive is also available within the up-right menu next to the disk-saving button.