PLATFORM FOR AUTHORING, STORING, AND SEARCHING WORKFLOWS

摘要

An authoring platform for authoring a client workflow includes an arrangement of shapes representing steps and connections representing relationships between the steps. Online content retrieved from an online resource may be associated with steps of the client workflow. An authoring service receives the client workflow from the client interface via a network and directs a graph database to store a database workflow corresponding to the client workflow. A search platform is provided for creating and searching workflows using a tag database taxonomy. An author creates a workflow wherein a tag is linked to a workflow item. The workflow is stored as a database workflow and a node in the database workflow representing the workflow item is linked to a node in the database taxonomy representing the tag. Multiple workflows are created in a similar manner to link the workflows to the database taxonomy to provide efficient searching of the workflows.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for searching workflows, the method comprising:
receiving, at a server computer, a search tag; producing, at the server computer, a set of database queries for performing a search within a graph database based on the search tag, wherein the graph database stores a plurality of workflows and a tag taxonomy, each workflow includes a plurality of workflow item nodes, and the tag taxonomy includes a plurality of tag nodes representing a plurality of tags; and sending the set of database queries to the graph database for execution.