DEPLOYING DISPATCH FORM WITH IMPLIED WORKFLOWS TO MOBILE DEVICES

摘要

A workflow system allows a user to define dispatch forms for use by workers working on jobs of various job types. A dispatch form is a combination of the form and a query for selecting jobs. A query specifies a criterion for matching jobs by specifying a field of the form and a corresponding data value. When a worker accesses a dispatch form via a mobile device, the query of the dispatch form is sent to a data store to access the data of jobs that are ready to be dispatched to that worker. The worker can then update the data of a job using the form of the dispatch form that has been deployed to the mobile device of that worker. As the data store is updated, queries for dispatch forms for other workers will indicate that the job is now ready to be dispatched to them.