Kepler

Its really not clear if this is possible in the general case. We may be able to
do something for specific cases. But not by the 1.0.0 release.

Further suggestions to improve the "new workflow" menu action as per conference
call on Nov 10, 2005:

1. "New Workflow" is highly intimidating to the novice; particularly the choice
of the proper director is critical. So I suggest that the New Workflow menu item
become a submenu, and that expand into a set of choices that will create empty
workflows, but with a director already set in them, and have understandable
names suggesting the model of computation adopted as "new dataflow", "new
discrete time simulation" etc. The last choice should be "New User-defined
workflow" that would create a totally empty new one.

2. The availability of fuller template workflows that guide the user in
performing common tasks would be very desirable. Templates would be partially
instantiated workflows with comments that suggest what actors to choose and why
to perform a task. E.g. "tabular data visualization" with predefined possible
visualization actors and comments suggesting how to search and retrieve data to
connect. Suggestion 1 and 2 actually would be performed the same way using a
simple template mechanism.

Overall, the menu structure could look like

New workflow > New Dataflow
New Discrete time Simulation
.....
New User-defined workflow
New from template > ...<template 1>
...<template 2>
...

Original Bugzilla ID was 2029