Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
Wow, its not often I get excited about something as boring as creating and using workflows, but the new demo video of the upcoming Mastreo workflow module, from Nextide Inc, for Drupal 7 is doing exactly that to me.
A few months ago I stumbled upon the Maestro: Advanced Workflow Module Proposal post at Drupal Groups. After reading through the initial post and comments I posted a reply with some questions and suggestions. I quickly got a reply from Eric, who works for Nextide, and the short discussion we had about what they plan for Maestro made me very excited about testing it.
Maestro will be a totaly new approach to how you create workflows in Drupal. Not only will you be able to create workflows for content, but for a lot of other things as well, including administrative tasks.
A short summary of some of the important features it will provide:
- Build directly for Drupal 7.
- Integrate and/or leverage functionality from other modules such as Actions, Tokens and Rules.
- Web 2.0 user interface (like in the screenshot to the left).
- Not just for content, but almost any task, including administration.
- Properly manage revisions of content so old published content remains published while new version being worked on.
- Making the workflow "invisible" and integrated with how creating content or performing tasks in drupal works. Which means you wont have to manually transition between workflow stages, its done automatically when you perform a task managed by Maestro.
Those, and the rest of the feature listed in the post on Drupal Groups sounded almost to good to be true.
That was until I Nextide posted the below video on Youtube yesterday. It blowed me away.
The way you will be able to visually create workflows simlpy is amazing. Then looking at how tasks will be visible for users or roles is going to supercharge the way we will be able to create workflows and manage content, administration, task, etc in Drupal.
At the end of the video it is mentioned that Nextide hope to be able to release a first test version of Maestro in a few weeks. Its going to be very interesting giving it a testdrive.
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blainelang (not verified)
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 21:18
Re: Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
Thanks Thomas for your review and enthusiasm for our maestro project. There is more to come like the workflow activity admin and reporting features but we want to get an early version released shortly without all the functionality planned so that we can start to get community feedback and help squashing any issues :)
thomas
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 23:12
Re: Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
Hi Blaine,
Thanks for enjoying my post. I have another website project planed that is just waiting for Drupal 7 to go beta. It will need a lot of workflows for various features, not just content creation. Looking forward to when you release the first public test version so I can give it a run.
/thomas
whatdoesitwant (not verified)
Sat, 08/14/2010 - 00:35
Re: Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
I remember from when I was working at a publishing house years back that it took me several weeks to set up just a single workflow. Ofcourse Drupal was an improvement to that, especially after I was introduced to Rules in Paris. But this, this is awesome stuff.
Randy (not verified)
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 20:48
Re: Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
Thomas: Just as an update -- we've released our ALPHA version of Maestro!
You can download it from the drupal.org project site at http://www.drupal.org/project/maestro.
thomas
Fri, 08/27/2010 - 01:00
Re: Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
Hi Randy,
Thanks for the info. I plan to give it a spin over the weekend. Going to be fun.
/thomas
Oak Brook Home ... (not verified)
Fri, 08/19/2011 - 09:26
Re: Maestro - Supercharged Workflow for Drupal 7
Can I just say what a relief to find someone who actually knows what theyre talking about on the internet.