Elsa Workflow integration without ASP.NET

[riatdyl]

Hello,

Is it possible to integrate Elsa Workflow in an application without using ASP.NET

We use .NET and I know it's possible to use an applicatoin similar to this one with "HttpContext" (This is what we use).

[sfmskywalker]

Sure, you can integrate it in pretty much any type of .NET application: Web, desktop, console, mobile, Raspberry etc.

You won't be able to use the HTTP activities however, since they have a hard dependency on Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core for controllers and middleware stuff. But you can always implement your own set of HTTP activities should you have a need for them (e.g. when using another type of web framework other than ASP.NET).

[riatdyl]

Okay thanks.

So, can I integrate the workflow designer in an ERP ?

This would allow us to integrate it directly into our application and access it through the server.

[sfmskywalker]

Yep, it could be as simple as adding the following tag to your HTML markup:

<elsa-studio-root server-url="https://localhost:11000/"></elsa-studio-root>

Which will bring you full workflow management capabilities (once they are delivered).
Right now these web components are available only through this repo, but we'll be setting up a build pipeline to deploy to NPM sometime in May. Until then you can of course build the assets manually from source:

cd .\src\designer\elsa-workflows-studio
npm install
npm run build

That will build the designer web components into a dist/elsa-workflows-studio folder.
Then, from your HTML page where you wish to use the web components, make sure to include the following scripts:

<script src="/elsa-workflows-studio/assets/js/monaco-editor/min/vs/loader.js"></script>
<script type="module" src="/elsa-workflows-studio/elsa-workflows-studio.esm.js"></script>
<script nomodule src="/elsa-workflows-studio/elsa-workflows-studio.js"></script>

[riatdyl]

Thank you !