Wow, what a year. 12 months ago Better Workflow was little more than an idea, now it’s Extension of the year; we feel honoured and humbled.It has certainly been an ‘interesting’ journey with many challenges, some of which almost broke us (Matrix support, anyone?).It was a struggle on another level as well. As a business... more
After a lot of blood sweat and tears, the release version of Better Workflow is out!Better Workflow is an ExpressionEngine add-on from Electric Putty that adds inline preview, entry drafts and approval processes to the EE control panel. With Better Workflow, you will be able to work on a 'draft copy' of a live entry, preview your changes... more
The launch of V1.0 of Better Workflow means we can finally draw a line under what has been just short of a year's development. That's not to say we're going to stop moving forward, far from it, we've got big plans. But it does give us the opportunity to pause and reflect. It was at EECI in Leiden way back in October 2010 that the idea was... more
So finally, it's the moment you've all been waiting for! Well.. some of you... ok well at least one of you. Anyway! In a pretty short blog post, we are pleased to announce that Better Workflow will be hitting the digital shelves in version 1.0 on the 6th of October, 2011. It will be available through devot-ee at a special introductory... more
We're going to announce a release date along with price information for Better Workflow at the end of this week, but before we did so we thought we'd give you all a little update on where we are. Beta testing an add-on is a fascinating way to learn how other people use EE. We'd made certain assumptions which were challenged and in the... more
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It's full steam ahead at Putty Towers to finish all the features we want to pack in to our first release of Better Workflow, and our target this week has been Playa. We sized it up from several different angles and had a good root around under the bonnet (that's hood to our American friends). There's some super fly code in there but... more
In light of us releasing our first batch of private beta invites, we thought we'd show you a bit more of what Better Workflow can do. Feast your eyes on the approval process feature!Where we areWe spent some time last week refactoring and tidying up the code for the beta release, and we're pretty happy with it (touch wood!) as far as... more
We’re not dead! Just. After a mountainload of client work destroyed any chance we had of working on Better Workflow for a good month orso, we’ve finally had a chance to catch our breath and make some progress. Yes, you read that right, progress.Inside the matrixAs you may have read on our previous post “Fun with third... more
OK, so looking back we were perhaps a little optimistic. Once we had a proof of concept we got carried away and thought we'd have this thing licked in a couple of weeks. Then we started on third-party field type support and things started to look a little different. I say third-party field types but in fact, as is so often the case in... more
We demo'ed Better Workflow at the London EE Meetup last night. Thankfully we had no technological breakdowns and, aside from one (small) glitch, our Add-on behaved perfectly. The post demo discussion was very interesting and we've come away with lots of ideas as to how we could improve Better Workflow.One issue discussed was around... more
Before we started using Expressionengine here at Electric Putty we build most of our websites using a proprietary CMS, in fact our CMS pre-dates our company. The imaginatively named epCMS began life way back in 2002, a time when the content management landscape was very different to today; third party CMS solutions were thin on the ground... more