still in discussion: add a workflow "state"

[lsteinmann]

A Workflow-Step can be:

• planned (?)
• started / inProgress
• finished / completed
• canceled?
• ???

And this could be displayed in the list of workflow-steps in the form of colored labels for easy identification?

But is this really a good idea? (It seems so, since they asked about such a thing and it is somewhat implied by people implementing their own "workflow" fields in categories; but still, I think we should discuss first.

[lsteinmann]

summary of chat discussion:

• if may be convenient to display the state of the workflowstep automatically depending on the current date vs. beginning/end date.
• workflow state could be validated against beginningDate/endDate (see add beginningDate and endDate to default workflow step instead of execution date #288 )
• if assigning automatically, this may be incorrect, since we only guess from the dates and have no way of knowing whether this is correct
• so: conflicting information (e.g. missing endDate but step marked finished; step marked inProgress but endDate is in the past) could be used to display warnings about possible faulty workflow data?