Hello guys, I'm in the middle of an architecturing project, and basically we are talking about 4 or 5 workflows with some complexity, and integration with 3rd party ERPs.

The cath is this: all users are working in different offices, ocassionally connected, so the solution MUST be SmartClient (web is not an option). When they are off the network , they should be able to start a workflow, or to approve some pending, and then when back online, synchronization should occur.

The creator can be in one office, it posts to the server for some ERP validation, and then it goes to step 2,and that is another user from another location, and so on.

Basically the question is: is it possible with WWF? Or it would mean more work than using something else as an engine?

I hope you can give me your thoughts which are most valuable to me.

Thanks,

Victor

I'd look at using queued communication, perhaps using WCF to allow the client to submit messages. Then when they are online, the message will be received by a service that interacts with the workflow.

Matt

First of all, thanks for the answer Matt. Ive been thinking about something like that, so you would always leave the workflow hosted at the server, never take it to the client , just have some indigo in the middle to talk between the workflow runtime at the server, and some components in the client. right?

Thanks again,

Victor