2nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Knowledge Engineering and Information Engineering (SEKEIE 2014)

Analysis of the Workflow Management System of Student Work

Yanping Chen Bo Lin

Information Engineering Department Information Engineering Department
Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technology College Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technology College
TianJin, P.R.China TianJin, P.R.China
[email protected] [email protected]

Abstracts—Through design and analysis, the student of the activities of a concept. Simply put, the workflow is a
management system, the use of workflow technology. specific job into several tasks and task execution, string
Workflow is a specific job into several tasks and task execution, together through a series of specific rules and procedures, in
string together through a series of specific rules and order to achieve the enterprise process informatization,
procedures, in order to achieve the work flow of information, standardization and automation.
standardization and automation. This paper describes in detail Through careful research and analysis, a lot of work flow
the application of workflow template, and eight kinds of management system of the student work in the need to
workflow design in the system implementers. These executives realize the use of workflow technology. In the realization of
basically meet the specific needs of the system, so as to improve
the system design, first define the workflow template, which
the adaptability and flexibility of workflow.
contains a transaction workflow execution of work, working
Keywords- Students work in the workflow executor role conditions, and the need to deal with the object. Then during
the operation of the system, according to the specific need to
create an instance of the workflow template. For example,
I. INTRODUCTION OF THE MANAGEMENT the new report workflow template, will be in the new born
SYSTEM OF STUDENT WORK school report for each new to create a report of workflow
instance. The workflow template independent of workflow
With the deepening of the reform of higher education,
instance running period, so based on the workflow instances
school running scale constantly expanding, increasing the
of the same template can run at the same time. Each
number of students in school, student management task has
workflow workflow can be decomposed into multiple tasks,
become increasingly heavy, the increasingly high demand.
tasks can be divided into automatic task and artificial task
By using the method of the traditional manual management
two. Automatic completion of tasks is when meet the task
can not accurately understand the actual situation of students,
when the trigger condition, the workflow server can
not quick query student information, not for statistics and
automatically call some applications to complete the task.
decision for the whole students, can not complete the student
Artificial task refers to when meet the task when the trigger
management affairs in time, affect the teacher to student's
condition, the workflow server automatically send to objects
management ability and work level. Therefore, the design
and mail to the specified task executor inbox, a task executor
and the development of a student management system to the
artificial completed the task. In the workflow template for
school's actual situation with.
each artificial tasks designated executor, the performer
Management system of student work mainly includes the
belonging to the users of the system.
student Party member database, student cadre database,
database, student associations difficult student database, III. STUDENT MANAGEMENT IN WORKFLOW
student discipline, student grants database database, student
recruitment database, and provide the database for the EXECUTION MODEL
information input, modify, delete, query function; provides In the process of research and the use of the workflow,
statements printing function for the student information. The workflow execution walker type setting is very important.
system also for different users with different permissions the The workflow executor mainly refers to the person or
user role, provides many kinds of workflow template organization involved in the operation of the unit during task
convenient for teachers to complete a variety of student work, execution, implementation defined in the system affects the
for example, development work, Party member of student flexibility of workflow model. The system should provide
activist Student Scholarship Award, outstanding student users with a more perfect execution model, for the user to
award the issuance of work, the new report job, graduates choose the workflow template design.
graduation work etc. Through the analysis and the design of the project,
summed up the system implementation in the workflow can
II. APPLICATION OF WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT be divided into the following eight categories:
SYSTEM OF STUDENT WORK
A. The workflow creator
Workflow concept originated in the production and office The workflow creator, or the administrator. Workflow
automation systems, is the daily work with fixed procedures server selects the workflow instances in the workflow

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instance begins when the administrator. In the absence of authorization. The workflow is used in this way can the task
specified workflow instance is the default administrator, the and role related, by assigning appropriate roles to users, the
workflow instance startup. The administrator can suspend, user and the task through role indirectly linked. Role is based
resume, resume, abort the workflow instance. on the system in order to complete various tasks and settings,
user specific role is based on the powers and responsibilities
B. The database owner of the user to distribution. So, the role of the middle layer
The database owner. Workflow server specific user as the can not put the user and task bound to die, effectively
currently active database owner, all documents and data in overcomes the shortcomings of the user and task will directly
the workflow instance execution time is saved by the link. When add, delete or modify the user, for example the
database owner management. reality of the transferred, V, job change, do not need to do a
C. The specific user task executor change work, only the user role assignment,
cancel, to achieve operational changes, greatly simplifies the
The specific user. In the creation of the workflow task of executive management, reduce complexity, not error
template to specify a specific user as a task executor. prone.
Before the current task execution.
Before the current task execution. The performer's IV. SUMMARY
establishment, can make the workflow server from meet the
current task trigger conditions users (that is, the ability to In the design and implementation of student management
complete the task the user), choose to complete the task of system, extensive use of workflow technology, the performer
recent users (i.e. the last completed the task of the workflow as an important part of workflow, it is perfect, is flexible, is
template user) as the current task execution. reasonable or not has great influence on the quality of the
workflow. The main use of these eight kinds of
D. User group implementation are introduced in detail in the paper. In the
User group. Create user groups have similar roles users system, they can basically meet the specific needs of
in the group. Through the establishment of user group, can workflow, workflow to improve the adaptability and
realize the following three cases. The first case: create a flexibility.
workflow template select a group, after entering the
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E. Authorized user
Authorized user. When the original specified user is
unable to complete the task, by original designation users
specify additional users to complete the task.
F. Be extended user
Be extended user. When the original designated users
found themselves unable to finish the task, can be extended,
and the extended another user specified together to complete
the task.
G. In order to improve the adaptability and robustness of
the workflow execution
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of the workflow execution, specified in the workflow
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