Re: [epf-dev] EPF Framework Customization & Published Layouts

[Peter Haumer <phaumer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Corey.
The EPF committer team decided that
the focus of our next release is to better support practices along the
new content design principles that we explored with the practices content
prototype which was recently presented at the open contributor meeting
and which is now available in CVS.  After discussing in the team the
great advantages of migrating OpenUP content to practices and having special
tool features that would better support modeling of practices was evaluated
with a higher priority than modeling with RACI relationships.  Bing
and I will walk through the 1.5 feature plan in one of the upcoming Friday
EPF tool meetings.  Everyone is invited to join an provide feedback.
We are hoping to be able to pick-up on the SPEM 2 concepts supporting RACI
after the 1.5 release.  

The ability to rearrange the sections
layout for publishing and creating themes was implemented by IBM for the
commercial extension of EPFC called Rational Method Composer 7.2.  It
offers you to create your own publication skins.  Checkout this post
for more details:  http://blog.haumer.net/rational-method-composer/24.
 In principle this ability is available in EPFC as well, because all
the style sheets and resource files are available in the open source version.
 They are just inside the plugins under EPL license and not factored
into a separate skins resource directory that can be freely modified. 

Thanks and best regards,
Peter Haumer.

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PETER HAUMER, Dr. rer. nat.
Rational Method Composer | Eclipse Process Framework
Rational Software | IBM Software Group
Tel.: +1 (408) 463-5096
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From:	Corey Segall <coreysegall@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List <epf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	03/12/2008 09:47
Subject:	[epf-dev] EPF Framework Customization & Published Layouts

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All,

    I thought that someone mentioned by the end of 2007 we would
have a release where we can
actually customize the layouts and relationships within EPF? Examples below:

Example 1) On a detail task page I would like to have the ability to create
RACI roles instead of
Primary and Secondary roles as the only relationships options. This capability
has been a long
standing request.

Example 2) Ability to add multiple output relationships. One that says
"New Output" and another
that says "Updated Output" so I can avoid having to create two
separate workprducts with the words
Updated and Created as part of the description when in reality it’s the
same work product.

3) Ability to rearrange the sections and size the different sections for
publishing. Even add your
own layout colors and font types when publishing. Similar to what someone
can do by
selecting/adding different themes for a website when using fusion or a
similar technology.


Summary:
The ability to have the functionality within EPF to easily create your
own relationship and names
of those relationships so that you later on can associate entities to them
(work products, roles
etc) and then publish this would be a great enhancement. Also the ability
to move around the
various sections, size them for a customized look, and use your own company
theme on publishing
would be very valuable in allowing us to use this product for various clients.

Corey Segall

 





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