Chapter 10. Extended Attribute Reference

TWE uses XPDL ability to store some additional information through extended attributes. TWE might add special extended attributes to package, external package, workflow process, activity and transition elements.

Extended attribute that can be added to any custom main XPDL object (Activity, Application,DataField, Transition, WorkflowProcess, Package, etc.) is:

Extended attributes added for package element are:

In the versions before 4.x, before we switched to XPDL 2 specification, there were extended attributes that were used by TWE's Graph component in order to hold the information about the graphical properties of elements, such as position, orientation, order, ...

These attributes are not used by TWE any more, since graphical information is now stored in corresponding XPDL 2 specification elements.

However, these attributes are important when TWE 4.x opens TWE 3.x or older XPDL files, and affect the conversion from XPDL 1 to XPDL 2.

Here is a list of those "old" extended attributes:

The ones that were added to workflow processes element are:

The ones that were added to activities are:

The ones that were added to transitions are: