User-Creatable Custom Workflows

摘要

This document describes techniques enabling users to customize their applications through workflows. In contrast to often-simplistic rules, these user-selectable workflows can be arbitrary and nearly limitless in number and complexity. Further, these workflows do not require that an application designer build them by adding or altering code of the application. The techniques enable users to create workflows by connecting exposed events and exposed actions of an application. These connections, referred to as “synapses,” are used by the techniques to build workflows, thereby permitting users to customize the application.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving selection of an exposed event, the exposed event internal to an application; receiving selection of an exposed action, the exposed action internal to the application; creating a synapse connecting the selected event to the selected action; and building a workflow using the synapse, the workflow configured to cause the application to perform the selected action responsive to the selected event.