Applying Microsoft Active Server Pages to Workflow
Groupmax Workflow for Active Server Pages provides an environment that uses Groupmax Workflow to create World Wide Web applications.
Groupmax Workflow for Active Server Pages (abbreviated as Groupmax Workflow for ASP hereafter) uses Microsoft Active Server Pages to create a script that can easily customize a Workflow system.
For example, work-items selected in the Business window can be accepted or rejected on a Web browser according to users' statuses.
Overview
The following gives an overview of developing and processing business applications using Groupmax Workflow for ASP.
Create users' business applications based on HTML using VB Script or Java Script.
Groupmax Workflow for ASP can use VB Script.
Save users' business applications created with Groupmax Workflow for ASP on an Internet Information Server (that is called IIS hereafter).
When a user calls the URL of a user's business application from his or her Web browse, an ASP file for the corresponding URL is analyzed and a script is executed on the server.
If the script on the server includes a call to Groupmax Workflow for Active Server Pages, it is called and it processes a workflow.
Merits for installing Groupmax Workflow for ASP
Groupmax Workflow for ASP can be useful in these situations:
Merits for users:
Users can use a workflow system on the Internet or an intranet.
Users can reduce the time it takes to manage clients because the installation on clients is unnecessary.
Users need only a Web browser to use Groupmax Workflow for ASP regardless of the clients' operating system.
Merits when developing users' business applications
Visual Inter Dev can be used to create a users' business application in VB Script.
Users can customize any windows for Workflow.
It is easy to link databases by using base compontents of ASP.